GreenKnight
Programmer
Hi,
I currently have a system with about 7 packages, and 20-ish projects. Each time I release a new version, I'd like to be able to update some of the VersionInfo (eg. product version, Copyright, File version) to be consistant. I am using Delphi 5.
Currently, we have a DOS batch file which does the build, using the command line compiler (BCC32.EXE) to do the actual compilation, but the batch file also does a whole lot of other stuff which is needed (such as compressing zip files, before compiling them in a resource/.RES file).
Does anyone know a way to automatically update the version information?
I have tried several solutions so far:
1) Change all the .DOF files to have the new information. FAILED: The command line compiler ignores the settings in the DOF file, and uses the .RES file directly.
2) Create a "Version.rc" file for each application and package, and have it compiled as part of the compile step. [This seems to be the standard approach suggested by many newgroup discussions.] FAILED: Version information in Packages is automatically compiled in ("include version information"
, and cannot be turned off. Using a seperate Version.rc file causes a "duplicate resource" error.
3) Edit the .RES file directly (programmatically). FAILED: I'm not sure what the format for a .RES binary file is! The only thing I could find "out there" that did something similarly was Colin Wilson's resource editor (see but although the resulting .RES file was editable through a resource editor, calling VerQueryValue to get the '\VarFileInfo\Translation' section returned nothing (and hence I cannot access any version strings programmatically).
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
GreenKnight
rjr@techprt.co.uk
I currently have a system with about 7 packages, and 20-ish projects. Each time I release a new version, I'd like to be able to update some of the VersionInfo (eg. product version, Copyright, File version) to be consistant. I am using Delphi 5.
Currently, we have a DOS batch file which does the build, using the command line compiler (BCC32.EXE) to do the actual compilation, but the batch file also does a whole lot of other stuff which is needed (such as compressing zip files, before compiling them in a resource/.RES file).
Does anyone know a way to automatically update the version information?
I have tried several solutions so far:
1) Change all the .DOF files to have the new information. FAILED: The command line compiler ignores the settings in the DOF file, and uses the .RES file directly.
2) Create a "Version.rc" file for each application and package, and have it compiled as part of the compile step. [This seems to be the standard approach suggested by many newgroup discussions.] FAILED: Version information in Packages is automatically compiled in ("include version information"
, and cannot be turned off. Using a seperate Version.rc file causes a "duplicate resource" error.3) Edit the .RES file directly (programmatically). FAILED: I'm not sure what the format for a .RES binary file is! The only thing I could find "out there" that did something similarly was Colin Wilson's resource editor (see but although the resulting .RES file was editable through a resource editor, calling VerQueryValue to get the '\VarFileInfo\Translation' section returned nothing (and hence I cannot access any version strings programmatically).
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
GreenKnight
rjr@techprt.co.uk
