SDL_version.h File Reference

Information the version of SDL in use.

Represents the library's version as three levels: major revision (increments with massive changes, additions, and enhancements), minor revision (increments with backwards-compatible changes to the major revision), and patchlevel (increments with fixes to the minor revision).

See also:

SDL_VERSION

SDL_GetVersion

Get the code revision of SDL that is linked against your program.

Returns an arbitrary string (a hash value) uniquely identifying the exact revision of the SDL library in use, and is only useful in comparing against other revisions. It is NOT an incrementing number.

Get the revision number of SDL that is linked against your program.

Returns a number uniquely identifying the exact revision of the SDL library in use. It is an incrementing number based on commits to hg.libsdl.org.

Get the version of SDL that is linked against your program.

If you are linking to SDL dynamically, then it is possible that the current version will be different than the version you compiled against. This function returns the current version, while SDL_VERSION() is a macro that tells you what version you compiled with.

  SDL_version compiled;
  SDL_version linked;

  SDL_VERSION(&compiled);
  SDL_GetVersion(&linked);
  printf("We compiled against SDL version %d.%d.%d ...\n",
         compiled.major, compiled.minor, compiled.patch);
  printf("But we linked against SDL version %d.%d.%d.\n",
         linked.major, linked.minor, linked.patch);

This function may be called safely at any time, even before SDL_Init().

See also:

SDL_VERSION