Thread: Automatic build number on about page

Create a little script/program that generates something along the lines of:

Code:

#define BUILDNUMBER 1

The script should generate "the next number" each time you compile.

Make this part of the makefile or whatever you use to build the project.

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Mats

Assuming you use a "makefile", just add it as part of the "recipe" for the final build. Something like:

Code:

all: myprog
    updatebuildnumber

myprog: myprog.o somefile.o other.o
    gcc -o $@ $<

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Mats

Originally Posted by abachler

bloodshed dev/c++ does automatic versioning without that hacky method

you have to go into the project settings and turn on automatic versioning, after that its some #define'd variable, i forget which, but a google search should tell you.

Good idea.

However, what you mean is that some part of the IDE is creating a automatic build/version number for you - it's just as "hacky" except it's someone else's hack, right? And of course, it relies on using that particular IDE, which may or may not be what the original poster does.

A long time ago, I used to have a little program that would find a string like "V1.0-00A" in a specified file and update it to "V1.0-00B" and so on. It was part of my "custom processing at end of build".

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Mats

Originally Posted by ratte

is there no gcc define that counts the number of builds of that file?

would be the easiest to output like BUILDNR...

gcc has no idea how many times you have compiled the project. An IDE could have the ability to do this, assuming you always use the IDE [or the IDE's method] to build the project.

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Mats