Manpages - curl_version.3

curl_version - returns the libcurl version string

#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!

  printf("libcurl version %s\n", curl_version());

Always

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)