SDL_version.h
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/*
Simple DirectMedia Layer
Copyright (C) 1997-2025 Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
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*/
/**
* # CategoryVersion
*
* This header defines the current SDL version.
*/
#ifndef SDL_version_h_
#define SDL_version_h_
#include "SDL_stdinc.h"
#include "begin_code.h"
/* Set up for C function definitions, even when using C++ */
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
/**
* Information about 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).
*
* \sa SDL_VERSION
* \sa SDL_GetVersion
*/
typedef struct SDL_version
{
Uint8 major; /**< major version */
Uint8 minor; /**< minor version */
Uint8 patch; /**< update version */
} SDL_version;
/* Printable format: "%d.%d.%d", MAJOR, MINOR, PATCHLEVEL
*/
#define SDL_MAJOR_VERSION 2
#define SDL_MINOR_VERSION 32
#define SDL_PATCHLEVEL 10
/**
* Macro to determine SDL version program was compiled against.
*
* This macro fills in a SDL_version structure with the version of the library
* you compiled against. This is determined by what header the compiler uses.
* Note that if you dynamically linked the library, you might have a slightly
* newer or older version at runtime. That version can be determined with
* SDL_GetVersion(), which, unlike SDL_VERSION(), is not a macro.
*
* \param x A pointer to a SDL_version struct to initialize.
*
* \sa SDL_version
* \sa SDL_GetVersion
*/
#define SDL_VERSION(x) \
{ \
(x)->major = SDL_MAJOR_VERSION; \
(x)->minor = SDL_MINOR_VERSION; \
(x)->patch = SDL_PATCHLEVEL; \
}
/* TODO: Remove this whole block in SDL 3 */
#if SDL_MAJOR_VERSION < 3
/**
* This macro turns the version numbers into a numeric value:
*
* ```
* (1,2,3) -> (1203)
* ```
*
* This assumes that there will never be more than 100 patchlevels.
*
* In versions higher than 2.9.0, the minor version overflows into the
* thousands digit: for example, 2.23.0 is encoded as 4300, and 2.255.99 would
* be encoded as 25799.
*
* This macro will not be available in SDL 3.x.
*/
#define SDL_VERSIONNUM(X, Y, Z) \
((X)*1000 + (Y)*100 + (Z))
/**
* This is the version number macro for the current SDL version.
*
* In versions higher than 2.9.0, the minor version overflows into the
* thousands digit: for example, 2.23.0 is encoded as 4300. This macro will
* not be available in SDL 3.x.
*
* Deprecated, use SDL_VERSION_ATLEAST or SDL_VERSION instead.
*/
#define SDL_COMPILEDVERSION \
SDL_VERSIONNUM(SDL_MAJOR_VERSION, SDL_MINOR_VERSION, SDL_PATCHLEVEL)
#endif /* SDL_MAJOR_VERSION < 3 */
/**
* This macro will evaluate to true if compiled with SDL at least X.Y.Z.
*/
#define SDL_VERSION_ATLEAST(X, Y, Z) \
((SDL_MAJOR_VERSION >= X) && \
(SDL_MAJOR_VERSION > X || SDL_MINOR_VERSION >= Y) && \
(SDL_MAJOR_VERSION > X || SDL_MINOR_VERSION > Y || SDL_PATCHLEVEL >= Z))
/**
* 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.
*
* This function may be called safely at any time, even before SDL_Init().
*
* \param ver the SDL_version structure that contains the version information.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.0.
*
* \sa SDL_GetRevision
*/
extern DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_GetVersion(SDL_version * ver);
/**
* Get the code revision of SDL that is linked against your program.
*
* This value is the revision of the code you are linked with and may be
* different from the code you are compiling with, which is found in the
* constant SDL_REVISION.
*
* The revision is 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.
*
* If SDL wasn't built from a git repository with the appropriate tools, this
* will return an empty string.
*
* Prior to SDL 2.0.16, before development moved to GitHub, this returned a
* hash for a Mercurial repository.
*
* You shouldn't use this function for anything but logging it for debugging
* purposes. The string is not intended to be reliable in any way.
*
* \returns an arbitrary string, uniquely identifying the exact revision of
* the SDL library in use.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.0.
*
* \sa SDL_GetVersion
*/
extern DECLSPEC const char *SDLCALL SDL_GetRevision(void);
/**
* Obsolete function, do not use.
*
* When SDL was hosted in a Mercurial repository, and was built carefully,
* this would return the revision number that the build was created from. This
* number was not reliable for several reasons, but more importantly, SDL is
* now hosted in a git repository, which does not offer numbers at all, only
* hashes. This function only ever returns zero now. Don't use it.
*
* Before SDL 2.0.16, this might have returned an unreliable, but non-zero
* number.
*
* \deprecated Use SDL_GetRevision() instead; if SDL was carefully built, it
* will return a git hash.
*
* \returns zero, always, in modern SDL releases.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 2.0.0.
*
* \sa SDL_GetRevision
*/
extern SDL_DEPRECATED DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_GetRevisionNumber(void);
/* Ends C function definitions when using C++ */
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
#include "close_code.h"
#endif /* SDL_version_h_ */
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SDL_stdinc.h
Uint8
uint8_t Uint8
Definition SDL_stdinc.h:203
SDL_GetRevisionNumber
SDL_DEPRECATED int SDL_GetRevisionNumber(void)
SDL_GetVersion
void SDL_GetVersion(SDL_version *ver)
SDL_GetRevision
const char * SDL_GetRevision(void)
begin_code.h
SDL_DEPRECATED
#define SDL_DEPRECATED
Definition begin_code.h:42
close_code.h
SDL_version
Definition SDL_version.h:51
SDL_version::minor
Uint8 minor
Definition SDL_version.h:53
SDL_version::patch
Uint8 patch
Definition SDL_version.h:54
SDL_version::major
Uint8 major
Definition SDL_version.h:52