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