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Automatically adding date and time of compilation
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:16 AM
I wanted some automatic way of including the build date and time in my complied xHarbour/FiveLinux code. The method I came up with is as follows:

In the shell script that builds the application I get the system date and time and then pass it to the xHarbour compiler as a #define by using the -d compiler option.

The option is built as follows:

builddate=$(date +"%d/%m/%Y@%T")
strBD=""
strBD+='-dkBDATE="'
strBD+=${builddate}
strBD+='"'


and applied as follows. Note that ${1} is the parameter containing the name of the source file to be compiled.

  ./../../xharbour/bin/harbour ${1}.prg -n -I./../include -I./../../xharbour/include -q0 ${strBD}


Then you can use kBDATE in your program as you wish - in my case I include it in the title of the main window.

Regards
xProgrammer
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Joined: Thu Oct 06, 2005 05:47 PM
Automatically adding date and time of compilation
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:20 AM

Doug,

Nice solution, thanks for sharing it :-)

regards, saludos

Antonio Linares
www.fivetechsoft.com

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