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Sortix volatile manual

This manual documents Sortix volatile, a development build that has not been officially released. You can instead view this document in the latest official manual.

curl_version(3) Library Functions Manual curl_version(3)

NAME

curl_version - returns the libcurl version string

SYNOPSIS


#include <curl/curl.h>

char *curl_version();

DESCRIPTION

Returns a human readable string with the version number of libcurl and some of its important components (like OpenSSL version).
 
We recommend using curl_version_info(3) instead.

PROTOCOLS

This functionality affects all supported protocols

EXAMPLE


int main(void)
{
printf("libcurl version %s\n", curl_version());
}

AVAILABILITY

Added in curl 7.1

RETURN VALUE

A pointer to a null-terminated string. The string resides in a statically allocated buffer and must not be freed by the caller.

SEE ALSO

curl_version_info(3)
2025-05-13 libcurl
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