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How to include a build-date into my application?

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Started by Floating October 16, 2003 07:41 PM

6 comments, last by Floating 20 years, 6 months ago

Floating

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October 16, 2003 07:41 PM

Hi, I am using MSVC6 and I would like to display somewhere when the application was built (kind of version info). How can I achieve this? Thanks

billybob

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October 16, 2003 07:50 PM

__DATE__ and __TIME__

Floating

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October 16, 2003 08:12 PM

Thanks billybob,

What happens if the part where I have "__DATE__" does not need to be recompiled (but some other part). In that case it will not correspond to the build-date, right?

I have a dll, where should I place "__DATE__" so that at every small modification the date is actualized?

Ravyne

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October 16, 2003 08:16 PM

Just do a rebuild-all once you''ve added and tested your changes instead of a regular build.

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Floating

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October 16, 2003 11:19 PM

Maybe any way to specify that a file has always to be built, even if not modified? (MSVC++6)

superpig

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October 17, 2003 07:59 AM

If you had a header file that was included in every source file - containing global definitions, etc - there might be some way to get it into that.

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Anonymous

October 17, 2003 08:40 AM

couldn''t you just touch (eg. update the modification time) the header in the prebuild step? seems a bit inefficient to rebuild everything.