/VERSION linker option on Windows

[Martin Sebor <se...@roguewave.com>]

Are we making use of it? If not, should we be?

   http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h88b7dc8(VS.80).aspx

Martin

Re: /VERSION linker option on Windows

[Martin Sebor <se...@roguewave.com>]

For the archives:
I've opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STDCXX-610 for this.


William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> 
> Martin Sebor wrote:
>> Are we making use of it? If not, should we be?
>> 
>>   http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h88b7dc8(VS.80).aspx
> 
> It's not terribly interesting.
> 
> You really want to focus on the VERSIONINFO member of the library's dll
> resource,
> which provides a whole lot more meaningful information to the
> user/developer.
> I presume you already attach that?
> 
> Bill
> 
> 

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Re: /VERSION linker option on Windows

["William A. Rowe, Jr." <wr...@rowe-clan.net>]

Martin Sebor wrote:
> Are we making use of it? If not, should we be?
> 
>   http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h88b7dc8(VS.80).aspx

It's not terribly interesting.

You really want to focus on the VERSIONINFO member of the library's dll resource,
which provides a whole lot more meaningful information to the user/developer.
I presume you already attach that?

Bill

Re: /VERSION linker option on Windows

[Martin Sebor <se...@roguewave.com>]

William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> Farid Zaripov wrote:
>>  
>>   But personally for me the version in the version info resource
>> would be more interesting. BTW there are more fields, i.e.
>> Copyright, Product Name, Company Name, Description, ...
> 
>  From your answer, I presume it's no.

I don't know for 100% sure but I suspect you're right.

> 
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/apr/trunk/libapr.rc
> 
> would be a source example (ignoring the oodles of garbage microsoft
> typically fills .rc source files with.)

Thanks for the pointer! We should do something like this for
4.2.1 (not just for Windows, but other platforms as well).
Let's open an enhancement for it to help us remember.

Martin

Re: /VERSION linker option on Windows

["William A. Rowe, Jr." <wr...@rowe-clan.net>]

Farid Zaripov wrote:
>  
>   But personally for me the version in the version info resource
> would be more interesting. BTW there are more fields, i.e.
> Copyright, Product Name, Company Name, Description, ...

 From your answer, I presume it's no.

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/apr/trunk/libapr.rc

would be a source example (ignoring the oodles of garbage microsoft
typically fills .rc source files with.)

Re: /VERSION linker option on Windows

[Farid Zaripov <Fa...@epam.com>]

> From: Martin Sebor [mailto:sebor@roguewave.com]
> Sent: Пт, 19.10.2007 1:58
> To: stdcxx-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: /VERSION linker option on Windows
> 
> Are we making use of it? If not, should we be?
> 
>    http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h88b7dc8(VS.80).aspx
 
  Why not? :)
 
  But personally for me the version in the version info resource
would be more interesting. BTW there are more fields, i.e.
Copyright, Product Name, Company Name, Description, ...
 
Farid.