create libcxx-version tool for getting currently used libcxx version

Signed-off-by: onur-ozkan <work@onurozkan.dev>

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+// Detecting the standard library version manually using a bunch of shell commands is very
+// complicated and fragile across different platforms. This program provides the major version
+// of the standard library on any target platform without requiring any messy work.
+//
+// It's nothing more than specifying the name of the standard library implementation (either libstdc++ or libc++)
+// and its major version.
+//
+// ignore-tidy-linelength
+
+#include <iostream>
+
+int main() {
+    #ifdef _GLIBCXX_RELEASE
+        std::cout << "libstdc++ version: " << _GLIBCXX_RELEASE << std::endl;
+    #elif defined(_LIBCPP_VERSION)
+        // _LIBCPP_VERSION follows "XXYYZZ" format (e.g., 170001 for 17.0.1).
+        // ref: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/f64732195c1030ee2627ff4e4142038e01df1d26/libcxx/include/__config#L51-L54
+        //
+        // Since we use the major version from _GLIBCXX_RELEASE, we need to extract only the first 2 characters of _LIBCPP_VERSION
+        // to provide the major version for consistency.
+        std::cout << "libc++ version: " << std::to_string(_LIBCPP_VERSION).substr(0, 2) << std::endl;
+    #else
+        std::cerr << "Coudln't recognize the standard library version." << std::endl;
+        return 1;
+    #endif
+
+    return 0;
+}