Re: Question on multiple compiler environment

beliavsky@xxxxxxx wrote:

I have also wondered how to embed information about the source code in
the executable. Currently I define a parameter NVERSION in my main
program and have a line at the beginning

write (*,*) "version #",NVERSION

This method relies on my changing NVERSION manually and on saving old
source codes. I know there exist source control systems such as RCS,
but can one use them to automatically embed version information in an
executable?

Again, the details of this are implementation-dependent. On Windows,
the usual approach is to define a version resource in a resource file
which is then linked with the executable. This will make your version
info available as a property of the EXE (or DLL). You can have a
pre-build step that finds the version info from your source control
system and constructs the appropriate .rc file for building into a .res
file. Elsewhere, "what strings" with a specific syntax are often used,
though you have to take care how you embed these in the program, making
sure that the compiler doesn't discard unused variables.


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