William_K_F has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello, How do I query the Perl version from C code with perl embedded in C program? It needs to be a runtime check since the perl shared library is selected at runtime. Thanks. -William

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Re: Query Perl embedded version from C?
by esskar (Deacon) on Jan 17, 2006 at 03:38 UTC
    Perl.h says the following 
    #define PERL_XS_APIVERSION "5.8.3"
#define PERL_PM_APIVERSION "5.005"
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      perl.h also says this: 
      /* Source code compatibility cruft:
   PERL_XS_APIVERSION is not used, and has been superseded by inc_vers
+ion_list
   It and PERL_PM_APIVERSION are retained for source compatibility in 
+the
   5.8.x maintenance branch.
 */

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      Dave.

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Re: Query Perl embedded version from C?
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 17, 2006 at 02:50 UTC
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