curl_version - Man Page

#include <curl/curl.h>

char *curl_version();

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!

This functionality affects all supported protocols

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

Added in curl 7.1

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

curl_version_info(3)

curl_version_info(3).