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<refentry id="cairo-Version-Information">
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<refentrytitle role="top_of_page" id="cairo-Version-Information.top_of_page">Version Information</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo>
  CAIRO Library
</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>Version Information</refname>
<refpurpose>Compile-time and run-time version checks.</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>

<refsect1 id="cairo-Version-Information.functions" role="functions_proto">
<title role="functions_proto.title">Functions</title>
<informaltable pgwide="1" frame="none">
<tgroup cols="2">
<colspec colname="functions_return" colwidth="150px"/>
<colspec colname="functions_name"/>
<tbody>
<row><entry role="define_keyword">#define</entry><entry role="function_name"><link linkend="CAIRO-VERSION-ENCODE:CAPS">CAIRO_VERSION_ENCODE</link><phrase role="c_punctuation">()</phrase></entry></row>
<row><entry role="define_keyword">#define</entry><entry role="function_name"><link linkend="CAIRO-VERSION-STRINGIZE:CAPS">CAIRO_VERSION_STRINGIZE</link><phrase role="c_punctuation">()</phrase></entry></row>
<row><entry role="function_type"><link linkend="int"><returnvalue>int</returnvalue></link>
</entry><entry role="function_name"><link linkend="cairo-version">cairo_version</link>&#160;<phrase role="c_punctuation">()</phrase></entry></row>
<row><entry role="function_type">const <link linkend="char"><returnvalue>char</returnvalue></link>&#160;*
</entry><entry role="function_name"><link linkend="cairo-version-string">cairo_version_string</link>&#160;<phrase role="c_punctuation">()</phrase></entry></row>

</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="cairo-Version-Information.other" role="other_proto">
<title role="other_proto.title">Types and Values</title>
<informaltable role="enum_members_table" pgwide="1" frame="none">
<tgroup cols="2">
<colspec colname="name" colwidth="150px"/>
<colspec colname="description"/>
<tbody>
<row><entry role="define_keyword">#define</entry><entry role="function_name"><link linkend="CAIRO-VERSION:CAPS">CAIRO_VERSION</link></entry></row>
<row><entry role="define_keyword">#define</entry><entry role="function_name"><link linkend="CAIRO-VERSION-MAJOR:CAPS">CAIRO_VERSION_MAJOR</link></entry></row>
<row><entry role="define_keyword">#define</entry><entry role="function_name"><link linkend="CAIRO-VERSION-MINOR:CAPS">CAIRO_VERSION_MINOR</link></entry></row>
<row><entry role="define_keyword">#define</entry><entry role="function_name"><link linkend="CAIRO-VERSION-MICRO:CAPS">CAIRO_VERSION_MICRO</link></entry></row>
<row><entry role="define_keyword">#define</entry><entry role="function_name"><link linkend="CAIRO-VERSION-STRING:CAPS">CAIRO_VERSION_STRING</link></entry></row>

</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="cairo-Version-Information.object-hierarchy" role="object_hierarchy">
<title role="object_hierarchy.title">Object Hierarchy</title>
<screen>
</screen>
</refsect1>


<refsect1 id="cairo-Version-Information.description" role="desc">
<title role="desc.title">Description</title>
<para>Cairo has a three-part version number scheme. In this scheme, we use
even vs. odd numbers to distinguish fixed points in the software
vs. in-progress development, (such as from git instead of a tar file,
or as a "snapshot" tar file as opposed to a "release" tar file).</para>
<informalexample><screen>
 _____ Major. Always 1, until we invent a new scheme.
/  ___ Minor. Even/Odd = Release/Snapshot (tar files) or Branch/Head (git)
| /  _ Micro. Even/Odd = Tar-file/git
| | /
1.0.0
</screen></informalexample>
<para>Here are a few examples of versions that one might see.</para>
<informalexample><screen>
Releases
--------
1.0.0 - A major release
1.0.2 - A subsequent maintenance release
1.2.0 - Another major release
&nbsp;
Snapshots
---------
1.1.2 - A snapshot (working toward the 1.2.0 release)
&nbsp;
In-progress development (eg. from git)
--------------------------------------
1.0.1 - Development on a maintenance branch (toward 1.0.2 release)
1.1.1 - Development on head (toward 1.1.2 snapshot and 1.2.0 release)
</screen></informalexample>
<refsect2>
<title>Compatibility</title>

The API/ABI compatibility guarantees for various versions are as
follows. First, let's assume some cairo-using application code that is
successfully using the API/ABI "from" one version of cairo. Then let's
ask the question whether this same code can be moved "to" the API/ABI
of another version of cairo.

Moving from a release to any later version (release, snapshot,
development) is always guaranteed to provide compatibility.

Moving from a snapshot to any later version is not guaranteed to
provide compatibility, since snapshots may introduce new API that ends
up being removed before the next release.

Moving from an in-development version (odd micro component) to any
later version is not guaranteed to provide compatibility. In fact,
there's not even a guarantee that the code will even continue to work
with the same in-development version number. This is because these
numbers don't correspond to any fixed state of the software, but
rather the many states between snapshots and releases.

</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>Examining the version</title>

Cairo provides the ability to examine the version at either
compile-time or run-time and in both a human-readable form as well as
an encoded form suitable for direct comparison. Cairo also provides the
macro <link linkend="CAIRO-VERSION-ENCODE:CAPS"><function>CAIRO_VERSION_ENCODE()</function></link> to perform the encoding.

<informalexample><screen>
Compile-time
------------
CAIRO_VERSION_STRING    Human-readable
CAIRO_VERSION           Encoded, suitable for comparison
&nbsp;
Run-time
--------
<link linkend="cairo-version-string"><function>cairo_version_string()</function></link>  Human-readable
<link linkend="cairo-version"><function>cairo_version()</function></link>         Encoded, suitable for comparison
</screen></informalexample>

For example, checking that the cairo version is greater than or equal
to 1.0.0 could be achieved at compile-time or run-time as follows:

<informalexample><programlisting>
##if CAIRO_VERSION &gt;= CAIRO_VERSION_ENCODE(1, 0, 0)
printf ("Compiling with suitable cairo version: %s\n", %CAIRO_VERSION_STRING);
##endif

if (cairo_version() &gt;= CAIRO_VERSION_ENCODE(1, 0, 0))
    printf ("Running with suitable cairo version: %s\n", cairo_version_string ());
</programlisting></informalexample>

</refsect2>

</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="cairo-Version-Information.functions_details" role="details">
<title role="details.title">Functions</title>
<refsect2 id="CAIRO-VERSION-ENCODE:CAPS" role="macro" condition="since:1.0">
<title>CAIRO_VERSION_ENCODE()</title>
<indexterm zone="CAIRO-VERSION-ENCODE:CAPS" role="1.0"><primary sortas="VERSION_ENCODE">CAIRO_VERSION_ENCODE</primary></indexterm>
<programlisting language="C">#define             CAIRO_VERSION_ENCODE(major, minor, micro)</programlisting>
<para>This macro encodes the given cairo version into an integer.  The numbers
returned by <link linkend="CAIRO-VERSION:CAPS"><literal>CAIRO_VERSION</literal></link> and <link linkend="cairo-version"><function>cairo_version()</function></link> are encoded using this macro.
Two encoded version numbers can be compared as integers.  The encoding ensures
that later versions compare greater than earlier versions.</para>
<refsect3 role="parameters">
<title>Parameters</title>
<informaltable role="parameters_table" pgwide="1" frame="none">
<tgroup cols="3">
<colspec colname="parameters_name" colwidth="150px"/>
<colspec colname="parameters_description"/>
<colspec colname="parameters_annotations" colwidth="200px"/>
<tbody>
<row><entry role="parameter_name"><para>major</para></entry>
<entry role="parameter_description"><para>the major component of the version number</para></entry>
<entry role="parameter_annotations"></entry></row>
<row><entry role="parameter_name"><para>minor</para></entry>
<entry role="parameter_description"><para>the minor component of the version number</para></entry>
<entry role="parameter_annotations"></entry></row>
<row><entry role="parameter_name"><para>micro</para></entry>
<entry role="parameter_description"><para>the micro component of the version number</para></entry>
<entry role="parameter_annotations"></entry></row>
</tbody></tgroup></informaltable>
</refsect3><refsect3 role="returns">
<title>Returns</title>
<para> the encoded version.</para>
<para></para>
</refsect3><para role="since">Since 1.0</para></refsect2>
<refsect2 id="CAIRO-VERSION-STRINGIZE:CAPS" role="macro" condition="since:1.8">
<title>CAIRO_VERSION_STRINGIZE()</title>
<indexterm zone="CAIRO-VERSION-STRINGIZE:CAPS" role="1.8"><primary sortas="VERSION_STRINGIZE">CAIRO_VERSION_STRINGIZE</primary></indexterm>
<programlisting language="C">#define             CAIRO_VERSION_STRINGIZE(major, minor, micro)</programlisting>
<para>This macro encodes the given cairo version into an string.  The numbers
returned by <link linkend="CAIRO-VERSION-STRING:CAPS"><literal>CAIRO_VERSION_STRING</literal></link> and <link linkend="cairo-version-string"><function>cairo_version_string()</function></link> are encoded using this macro.
The parameters to this macro must expand to numerical literals.</para>
<refsect3 role="parameters">
<title>Parameters</title>
<informaltable role="parameters_table" pgwide="1" frame="none">
<tgroup cols="3">
<colspec colname="parameters_name" colwidth="150px"/>
<colspec colname="parameters_description"/>
<colspec colname="parameters_annotations" colwidth="200px"/>
<tbody>
<row><entry role="parameter_name"><para>major</para></entry>
<entry role="parameter_description"><para>the major component of the version number</para></entry>
<entry role="parameter_annotations"></entry></row>
<row><entry role="parameter_name"><para>minor</para></entry>
<entry role="parameter_description"><para>the minor component of the version number</para></entry>
<entry role="parameter_annotations"></entry></row>
<row><entry role="parameter_name"><para>micro</para></entry>
<entry role="parameter_description"><para>the micro component of the version number</para></entry>
<entry role="parameter_annotations"></entry></row>
</tbody></tgroup></informaltable>
</refsect3><refsect3 role="returns">
<title>Returns</title>
<para> a string literal containing the version.</para>
<para></para>
</refsect3><para role="since">Since 1.8</para></refsect2>
<refsect2 id="cairo-version" role="function" condition="since:1.0">
<title>cairo_version&#160;()</title>
<indexterm zone="cairo-version" role="1.0"><primary sortas="version">cairo_version</primary></indexterm>
<programlisting language="C"><link linkend="int"><returnvalue>int</returnvalue></link>
cairo_version (<parameter><type>void</type></parameter>);</programlisting>
<para>Returns the version of the cairo library encoded in a single
integer as per <link linkend="CAIRO-VERSION-ENCODE:CAPS"><literal>CAIRO_VERSION_ENCODE</literal></link>. The encoding ensures that
later versions compare greater than earlier versions.</para>
<para>A run-time comparison to check that cairo's version is greater than
or equal to version X.Y.Z could be performed as follows:</para>
<informalexample><programlisting>
if (cairo_version() &gt;= CAIRO_VERSION_ENCODE(X,Y,Z)) {...}
</programlisting></informalexample>
<para>See also <link linkend="cairo-version-string"><function>cairo_version_string()</function></link> as well as the compile-time
equivalents <link linkend="CAIRO-VERSION:CAPS"><literal>CAIRO_VERSION</literal></link> and <link linkend="CAIRO-VERSION-STRING:CAPS"><literal>CAIRO_VERSION_STRING</literal></link>.</para>
<refsect3 role="returns">
<title>Returns</title>
<para> the encoded version.</para>
<para></para>
</refsect3><para role="since">Since 1.0</para></refsect2>
<refsect2 id="cairo-version-string" role="function" condition="since:1.0">
<title>cairo_version_string&#160;()</title>
<indexterm zone="cairo-version-string" role="1.0"><primary sortas="version_string">cairo_version_string</primary></indexterm>
<programlisting language="C">const <link linkend="char"><returnvalue>char</returnvalue></link>&#160;*
cairo_version_string (<parameter><type>void</type></parameter>);</programlisting>
<para>Returns the version of the cairo library as a human-readable string
of the form "X.Y.Z".</para>
<para>See also <link linkend="cairo-version"><function>cairo_version()</function></link> as well as the compile-time equivalents
<link linkend="CAIRO-VERSION-STRING:CAPS"><literal>CAIRO_VERSION_STRING</literal></link> and <link linkend="CAIRO-VERSION:CAPS"><literal>CAIRO_VERSION</literal></link>.</para>
<refsect3 role="returns">
<title>Returns</title>
<para> a string containing the version.</para>
<para></para>
</refsect3><para role="since">Since 1.0</para></refsect2>

</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="cairo-Version-Information.other_details" role="details">
<title role="details.title">Types and Values</title>
<refsect2 id="CAIRO-VERSION:CAPS" role="macro" condition="since:1.0">
<title>CAIRO_VERSION</title>
<indexterm zone="CAIRO-VERSION:CAPS" role="1.0"><primary sortas="VERSION">CAIRO_VERSION</primary></indexterm>
<programlisting language="C">#define             CAIRO_VERSION</programlisting>
<para>The version of cairo available at compile-time, encoded using
<link linkend="CAIRO-VERSION-ENCODE:CAPS"><function>CAIRO_VERSION_ENCODE()</function></link>.</para>
<para role="since">Since 1.0</para></refsect2>
<refsect2 id="CAIRO-VERSION-MAJOR:CAPS" role="macro" condition="since:1.0">
<title>CAIRO_VERSION_MAJOR</title>
<indexterm zone="CAIRO-VERSION-MAJOR:CAPS" role="1.0"><primary sortas="VERSION_MAJOR">CAIRO_VERSION_MAJOR</primary></indexterm>
<programlisting language="C">#define CAIRO_VERSION_MAJOR USE_cairo_version_OR_cairo_version_string_INSTEAD
</programlisting>
<para>The major component of the version of cairo available at compile-time.</para>
<para role="since">Since 1.0</para></refsect2>
<refsect2 id="CAIRO-VERSION-MINOR:CAPS" role="macro" condition="since:1.0">
<title>CAIRO_VERSION_MINOR</title>
<indexterm zone="CAIRO-VERSION-MINOR:CAPS" role="1.0"><primary sortas="VERSION_MINOR">CAIRO_VERSION_MINOR</primary></indexterm>
<programlisting language="C">#define CAIRO_VERSION_MINOR USE_cairo_version_OR_cairo_version_string_INSTEAD
</programlisting>
<para>The minor component of the version of cairo available at compile-time.</para>
<para role="since">Since 1.0</para></refsect2>
<refsect2 id="CAIRO-VERSION-MICRO:CAPS" role="macro" condition="since:1.0">
<title>CAIRO_VERSION_MICRO</title>
<indexterm zone="CAIRO-VERSION-MICRO:CAPS" role="1.0"><primary sortas="VERSION_MICRO">CAIRO_VERSION_MICRO</primary></indexterm>
<programlisting language="C">#define CAIRO_VERSION_MICRO USE_cairo_version_OR_cairo_version_string_INSTEAD
</programlisting>
<para>The micro component of the version of cairo available at compile-time.</para>
<para role="since">Since 1.0</para></refsect2>
<refsect2 id="CAIRO-VERSION-STRING:CAPS" role="macro" condition="since:1.8">
<title>CAIRO_VERSION_STRING</title>
<indexterm zone="CAIRO-VERSION-STRING:CAPS" role="1.8"><primary sortas="VERSION_STRING">CAIRO_VERSION_STRING</primary></indexterm>
<programlisting language="C">#define             CAIRO_VERSION_STRING</programlisting>
<para>A human-readable string literal containing the version of cairo available
at compile-time, in the form of "X.Y.Z".</para>
<para role="since">Since 1.8</para></refsect2>

</refsect1>

</refentry>
