[API reference](https://evolu.dev/docs/api-reference) › [@evolu/sqlite-wasm](https://evolu.dev/docs/api-reference/sqlite-wasm) › [c-api](https://evolu.dev/docs/api-reference/sqlite-wasm/c-api) › sqlite3\_initialize

```ts
function sqlite3_initialize(deps: SqliteWasmDep): () => SqliteResultCode;
```

Defined in: [packages/sqlite-wasm/src/CApi.ts:736](https://github.com/evoluhq/evolu/blob/bc4578a260dd15d5bbf94b83765ca05984d194cb/packages/sqlite-wasm/src/CApi.ts#L736)

Initializes the library, returning SQLITE_OK or an error code. Once the
library is initialized, further calls are harmless no-ops until
[sqlite3\_shutdown](https://evolu.dev/docs/api-reference/sqlite-wasm/c-api/functions/sqlite3_shutdown).

Wasm type `i()`. Signature `["sqlite3_initialize", undefined]` from SQLite's
table, with the result corrected: SQLite's table declares no result, but the
C function returns a result code, as the wasm type shows.

See https://sqlite.org/c3ref/initialize.html.