.\" ************************************************************************** .\" * _ _ ____ _ .\" * Project ___| | | | _ \| | .\" * / __| | | | |_) | | .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * .\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. .\" * .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms .\" * are also available at https://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html. .\" * .\" * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell .\" * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is .\" * furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file. .\" * .\" * This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY .\" * KIND, either express or implied. .\" * .\" ************************************************************************** .TH curl_version 3 "5 March 2001" "libcurl 7.0" "libcurl Manual" .SH NAME curl_version - returns the libcurl version string .SH SYNOPSIS .B #include <curl/curl.h> .sp .BI "char *curl_version( );" .ad .SH DESCRIPTION Returns a human readable string with the version number of libcurl and some of its important components (like OpenSSL version). We recommend using \fIcurl_version_info(3)\fP instead! .SH RETURN VALUE A pointer to a zero terminated string. The string resides in a statically allocated buffer and must not be freed by the caller. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR curl_version_info "(3)"