Multiple definition of … linker error

Don’t define variables in headers. Put declarations in header and definitions in one of the .c files.

In config.h

extern const char *names[];

In some .c file:

const char *names[] = { 
  "brian", "stefan", "steve" };

If you put a definition of a global variable in a header file, then this definition will go to every .c file that includes this header, and you will get multiple definition error because a varible may be declared multiple times but can be defined only once.

Also, one more thing you can do if you have to define your variables inside of a header file you can use the static keyword.

static const char *names[] = {
  "brian", "stefan", "steve" };

This way variable names will be defined only once in your entire program and can be accessed multiple number of times.

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