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SDL_version.h
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3 Copyright (C) 1997-2025 Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
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21
22/**
23 * # CategoryVersion
24 *
25 * This header defines the current SDL version.
26 */
27
28#ifndef SDL_version_h_
29#define SDL_version_h_
30
31#include "SDL_stdinc.h"
32
33#include "begin_code.h"
34/* Set up for C function definitions, even when using C++ */
35#ifdef __cplusplus
36extern "C" {
37#endif
38
39/**
40 * Information about the version of SDL in use.
41 *
42 * Represents the library's version as three levels: major revision
43 * (increments with massive changes, additions, and enhancements), minor
44 * revision (increments with backwards-compatible changes to the major
45 * revision), and patchlevel (increments with fixes to the minor revision).
46 *
47 * \sa SDL_VERSION
48 * \sa SDL_GetVersion
49 */
50typedef struct SDL_version
51{
52 Uint8 major; /**< major version */
53 Uint8 minor; /**< minor version */
54 Uint8 patch; /**< update version */
56
57/* Printable format: "%d.%d.%d", MAJOR, MINOR, PATCHLEVEL
58*/
59#define SDL_MAJOR_VERSION 2
60#define SDL_MINOR_VERSION 32
61#define SDL_PATCHLEVEL 0
62
63/**
64 * Macro to determine SDL version program was compiled against.
65 *
66 * This macro fills in a SDL_version structure with the version of the library
67 * you compiled against. This is determined by what header the compiler uses.
68 * Note that if you dynamically linked the library, you might have a slightly
69 * newer or older version at runtime. That version can be determined with
70 * SDL_GetVersion(), which, unlike SDL_VERSION(), is not a macro.
71 *
72 * \param x A pointer to a SDL_version struct to initialize.
73 *
74 * \sa SDL_version
75 * \sa SDL_GetVersion
76 */
77#define SDL_VERSION(x) \
78{ \
79 (x)->major = SDL_MAJOR_VERSION; \
80 (x)->minor = SDL_MINOR_VERSION; \
81 (x)->patch = SDL_PATCHLEVEL; \
82}
83
84/* TODO: Remove this whole block in SDL 3 */
85#if SDL_MAJOR_VERSION < 3
86
87/**
88 * This macro turns the version numbers into a numeric value:
89 *
90 * ```
91 * (1,2,3) -> (1203)
92 * ```
93 *
94 * This assumes that there will never be more than 100 patchlevels.
95 *
96 * In versions higher than 2.9.0, the minor version overflows into the
97 * thousands digit: for example, 2.23.0 is encoded as 4300, and 2.255.99 would
98 * be encoded as 25799.
99 *
100 * This macro will not be available in SDL 3.x.
101 */
102#define SDL_VERSIONNUM(X, Y, Z) \
103 ((X)*1000 + (Y)*100 + (Z))
104
105/**
106 * This is the version number macro for the current SDL version.
107 *
108 * In versions higher than 2.9.0, the minor version overflows into the
109 * thousands digit: for example, 2.23.0 is encoded as 4300. This macro will
110 * not be available in SDL 3.x.
111 *
112 * Deprecated, use SDL_VERSION_ATLEAST or SDL_VERSION instead.
113 */
114#define SDL_COMPILEDVERSION \
115 SDL_VERSIONNUM(SDL_MAJOR_VERSION, SDL_MINOR_VERSION, SDL_PATCHLEVEL)
116#endif /* SDL_MAJOR_VERSION < 3 */
117
118/**
119 * This macro will evaluate to true if compiled with SDL at least X.Y.Z.
120 */
121#define SDL_VERSION_ATLEAST(X, Y, Z) \
122 ((SDL_MAJOR_VERSION >= X) && \
123 (SDL_MAJOR_VERSION > X || SDL_MINOR_VERSION >= Y) && \
124 (SDL_MAJOR_VERSION > X || SDL_MINOR_VERSION > Y || SDL_PATCHLEVEL >= Z))
125
126/**
127 * Get the version of SDL that is linked against your program.
128 *
129 * If you are linking to SDL dynamically, then it is possible that the current
130 * version will be different than the version you compiled against. This
131 * function returns the current version, while SDL_VERSION() is a macro that
132 * tells you what version you compiled with.
133 *
134 * This function may be called safely at any time, even before SDL_Init().
135 *
136 * \param ver the SDL_version structure that contains the version information.
137 *
138 * \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.0.
139 *
140 * \sa SDL_GetRevision
141 */
142extern DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_GetVersion(SDL_version * ver);
143
144/**
145 * Get the code revision of SDL that is linked against your program.
146 *
147 * This value is the revision of the code you are linked with and may be
148 * different from the code you are compiling with, which is found in the
149 * constant SDL_REVISION.
150 *
151 * The revision is arbitrary string (a hash value) uniquely identifying the
152 * exact revision of the SDL library in use, and is only useful in comparing
153 * against other revisions. It is NOT an incrementing number.
154 *
155 * If SDL wasn't built from a git repository with the appropriate tools, this
156 * will return an empty string.
157 *
158 * Prior to SDL 2.0.16, before development moved to GitHub, this returned a
159 * hash for a Mercurial repository.
160 *
161 * You shouldn't use this function for anything but logging it for debugging
162 * purposes. The string is not intended to be reliable in any way.
163 *
164 * \returns an arbitrary string, uniquely identifying the exact revision of
165 * the SDL library in use.
166 *
167 * \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.0.
168 *
169 * \sa SDL_GetVersion
170 */
171extern DECLSPEC const char *SDLCALL SDL_GetRevision(void);
172
173/**
174 * Obsolete function, do not use.
175 *
176 * When SDL was hosted in a Mercurial repository, and was built carefully,
177 * this would return the revision number that the build was created from. This
178 * number was not reliable for several reasons, but more importantly, SDL is
179 * now hosted in a git repository, which does not offer numbers at all, only
180 * hashes. This function only ever returns zero now. Don't use it.
181 *
182 * Before SDL 2.0.16, this might have returned an unreliable, but non-zero
183 * number.
184 *
185 * \deprecated Use SDL_GetRevision() instead; if SDL was carefully built, it
186 * will return a git hash.
187 *
188 * \returns zero, always, in modern SDL releases.
189 *
190 * \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.0.
191 *
192 * \sa SDL_GetRevision
193 */
194extern SDL_DEPRECATED DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_GetRevisionNumber(void);
195
196
197/* Ends C function definitions when using C++ */
198#ifdef __cplusplus
199}
200#endif
201#include "close_code.h"
202
203#endif /* SDL_version_h_ */
204
205/* vi: set ts=4 sw=4 expandtab: */
uint8_t Uint8
Definition SDL_stdinc.h:203
SDL_DEPRECATED int SDL_GetRevisionNumber(void)
void SDL_GetVersion(SDL_version *ver)
const char * SDL_GetRevision(void)
#define SDL_DEPRECATED
Definition begin_code.h:42