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1---
2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
4Title: curl_version
5Section: 3
6Source: libcurl
7See-also:
8  - curl_version_info (3)
9Protocol:
10  - All
11Added-in: 7.1
12---
13
14# NAME
15
16curl_version - returns the libcurl version string
17
18# SYNOPSIS
19
20~~~c
21#include <curl/curl.h>
22
23char *curl_version();
24~~~
25
26# DESCRIPTION
27
28Returns a human readable string with the version number of libcurl and some of
29its important components (like OpenSSL version).
30
31We recommend using curl_version_info(3) instead.
32
33# %PROTOCOLS%
34
35# EXAMPLE
36
37~~~c
38int main(void)
39{
40  printf("libcurl version %s\n", curl_version());
41}
42~~~
43
44# %AVAILABILITY%
45
46# RETURN VALUE
47
48A pointer to a null-terminated string. The string resides in a statically
49allocated buffer and must not be freed by the caller.
50