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<p>prelude &#8212; 
Initializing the library</p>
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#define     <a href="libprelude-prelude.html#LIBPRELUDE-VERSION:CAPS">LIBPRELUDE_VERSION</a>
int         <a href="libprelude-prelude.html#prelude-init">prelude_init</a>                    (int *argc,
                                             char **argv);
void        <a href="libprelude-prelude.html#prelude-deinit">prelude_deinit</a>                  (void);
const char* <a href="libprelude-prelude.html#prelude-check-version">prelude_check_version</a>           (const char *req_version);
int         <a href="libprelude-prelude.html#prelude-thread-init">prelude_thread_init</a>             (void *future_use);
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Before any operation are done using the prelude library, the user first need 
to initialize it using the <a href="libprelude-prelude.html#prelude-init"><tt class="function">prelude_init()</tt></a> function.

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ret = prelude_init(&amp;argc, argv);
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<a class="indexterm" name="id240039"></a><pre class="programlisting">#define LIBPRELUDE_VERSION "0.9.7.2"
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<a class="indexterm" name="id240067"></a><pre class="programlisting">int         prelude_init                    (int *argc,
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Call this function before using any other Prelude functions in your applications.
It will initialize everything needed to operate the library and parses some standard
command line options. <i class="parameter"><tt>argc</tt></i> and <i class="parameter"><tt>argv</tt></i> are adjusted accordingly so your own code will
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Call this function if you're done using the library and want to free global
shared ressource allocated by libprelude.</p>
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<a class="indexterm" name="id240226"></a><pre class="programlisting">const char* prelude_check_version           (const char *req_version);</pre>
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If <i class="parameter"><tt>req_version</tt></i> is NULL this function will return the version of the library.
Otherwise, <i class="parameter"><tt>req_version</tt></i> will be compared to the current library version. If
the library version is higher or equal, this function will return the current
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