Different version numbers on different configurations

[xwb]

At the moment, I'm building code using the version resources provided by visual studio. What I want to do is to somehow indicate in the version resource which configuration I'm using. All the sources are the same: it is just the library that they link to that is different.

For instance, for

"Debug - OR" configuration, version number should be 1,0,0,OR
"Release - AT" config, version number should be 1,0,0,AT

Is it possible to do this with defines? If so, how do I feed it into the resource compiler.

 

[mingis]

Resource compiler of Open Watcom has command line argument -d for macro definition, the same like C++ compiler has. Dont know about MSVC.

 

[xwb]

MSVC also has a -D or /D for defining macros on the command line. That is not the problem. The problem is the resource file. I have something like

PRODUCTVERSION 1,0,0,1

I can't change that because 1,0,0,1 are two DWORDS. Further down there is something like

VALUE "ProductVersion", "1,0,0,1"

which I'd like to change to

VALUE "ProductVersion", "1,0,0," XXX

where I have -DXXX=OR or -DXXX=AT on the compile line but this just gives me a version number of 1,0,0

What I'd like to know is how I can put a macro into a string in the resource compiler. I just can't get the macros to work in the string section.

 

[cpjust]

I never use resource files, so I can't help much there; but just out of curiosity... Why "OR" and "AT"? What do they stand for?

 

[xwb]

It is different CORBA ORBs. I've got

OR = ORBACUS
AT = ACE/TAO
ER = Engine Room
VB = Visibroker

I'm using the same source compiled with different ORBs. If I tick the "ProductVersion" column in explorer, it will tell me the version number. I'm running different ORBs on different machines to see whether the differences in implementation cause any problems.

I could name them differently but that would mean I'd have to set environment variables whenever I changed versions otherwise the batch files won't work. I think it is easier to keep the names the same and just use explorer to tell me which version I'm running.

 

[xwb]

I've worked it out. Set the product version to

VALUE "ProductVersion", ORB

In the compile line, add a define

ORB="79,82,\0" for OR
ORB="65,84,\0" for AT

I noticed that ORB=65 gave the value A. So I tried

1) the equivalent of 65*256+65 to get AA but I got a chinese character instead.
2) ORB="AT\0" but the resource compiler said it didn't understand AT.
3) ORB="\101\124\0" but it got a compilation error.
4) ORB="55,66,77,\0" and I got 7BM - I expected 55,66,77 in explorer.

Since 55,66,77 was decimal for 7BM it figures that it just wants a comma separated list of decimal equivalents of whatever you wish to display.

 

[xwb]

My only problem now is to figure out a method where I can see the resource file in visual studio.