NE_VERSION_MATCH(3)

💖 NE_VERSION_MATCH(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the neon API reference ✨ this page is your one-stop shop for ne_version_match, ne_version_string, and ne_version_library — aka the whole library versioning situation 🎀 no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ne_version_match, ne_version_string, ne_version_library — library versioning, fr fr 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <ne_utils.h>

int ne_version_match(int major, int minor);

const char *ne_version_string(void);

const char *ne_version_library(void);

like. look at her. iconic function signatures 💅

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so first up, ne_version_match — she takes major and minor as parameters, and she returns zero if the library version is backwards-compatible with the version you handed her. zero = good news = we slay 🙌 anything else means nope.

then we have ne_version_string — she returns a string giving you the library version and build information. the full tea, basically 🫖

and lastly ne_version_library — she returns a string with the library version number alone, like literally just "0.37.0" and nothing else. minimal. clean. main character energy 👑

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

say you wanna require a version of neon that's backwards-compatible with version 1.2.0. bestie, you'd do this:

if (ne_version_match(1, 2)) {
    printf("Library version out of date: 1.2 required, found %s.",
           ne_version_string());
    exit(1);
}

not me writing version checks at 2am 😭 but look how tidy it is tho 💖

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🎀 HISTORY 🎀

the ne_version_library function is available in neon 0.37.0 and later. so if you're on anything older, she simply does not exist yet 🙈

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2001-2026 Joe Orton

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! go forth and version-check responsibly 🦋✨

this has been neon 0.37.1 from 15 March 2026 — mwah, ily, periodt 💅💖