# Version Information Functions

Intel® MKL provides two methods for extracting information about the library version number:

- extracting a version string using the MKLGetVersionString function

- using the MKLGetVersion function to obtain an MKLVersion structure that contains the version information

A makefile is also provided to automatically build the examples and output summary files containing the version information for the current library.

- MKLGetVersion
  Returns information about the active library C version.
- MKLGetVersionString
  Gets the library version string.

Parent topic: Support Functions