External dependency and minification

Hi stumbled upon an interesting issue that I know how to fix with a simple hack, but I would love to know the proper way.

My plugin has a dependency set as:

"dependency":           "leaderbird.min.js"[/code:2akdxkpn]

Which returns an object:
[code:2akdxkpn]leaderbird = function() {}();[/code:2akdxkpn]

Obviously my plugin references said object across the various actions, expressions and conditions.
When the minification process happens, another string gets appended to the variable such as leaderbird0b, which of course doesn't exist.

Is there any way to "protect" a specific variable? Or is this a case of having to manually rename the value?

Thanks

Yes, the minification guide already covers this. You need to use obj["prop"] syntax.

Horribly sorry Ashley, but I cannot seem to find this entry in the manual, do you have a link? It might be useful to leave it here in case someone stumbles upon this one.

I believe this is the one:

https://www.scirra.com/manual/22/runtime-overview

Horribly sorry Ashley, but I cannot seem to find this entry in the manual, do you have a link? It might be useful to leave it here in case someone stumbles upon this one.

I don't think it needs to be repeated here as it is adequately covered under the heading 'Google Closure Compiler compatibility'.