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C program to get MySQL client version in Linux

Here, we are going to write a C program to get MySQL client version in Linux.
By Nidhi Last updated : March 10, 2024

Prerequisites

The following packages need to be installed in the ubuntu machine for MySQL connectivity using the C program.

sudo apt install default-libmysqlclient-dev

Problem Solution

In this program, we will get the MySQL client version in Linux and the print version on the console screen.

Program/Source Code

The source code to get the MySQL client version in Linux is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully on Ubuntu 20.04.

//C program to get MySQL client version in Linux

#include <mysql.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main()
{
    char ver[16] = { 0 };

    strcpy(ver, mysql_get_client_info());
    printf("MySQL client version is: %s\n", ver);

    return 0;
}

Output

$ gcc version.c -o version  `mysql_config --cflags --libs`
$ ./version 
MySQL client version is: 8.0.23

In the above program, we included the mysql.h header file to use MySql connectivity related functions. Here, we got the version of the MySql client using mysql_get_client_info() and then print the result on the console screen.