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How to get glibc version - C Lang

#c #linux

Here we list 3 methods to get glibc version:

Method 1, ldd

The easiest way is to use ldd command which comes with glibc and in most cases it will print the same version as glibc:

$ ldd --version ldd (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.30-0ubuntu2.1) 2.30
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Here "2.30" is the version.

Method2, libc.so

We can also use the libc.so to print out version. First we need to find out the path of libc.so. You can use ldd to a binary to find out the libc.so:

$ ldd `which ls` | grep libc libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f918034d000)
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From where we can see the libc.so path is /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6.

Then simply run:

$ /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 GNU C Library (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.30-0ubuntu2.1) stable release version 2.30.
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WE get the versin "2.30".

Method 3, programmatic way

We can also write a program to print the version out. There are 3 ways we can do this programmatically.

#include <gnu/libc-version.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h>  int main() { // method 1, use macro printf("%d.%d\n", __GLIBC__, __GLIBC_MINOR__); // method 2, use gnu_get_libc_version  puts(gnu_get_libc_version()); // method 3, use confstr function char version[30] = {0}; confstr(_CS_GNU_LIBC_VERSION, version, 30); puts(version); return 0; }
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Compile and run:

$ gcc main.c -o main $ ./main 2.30 2.30 glibc 2.30
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