[Interest] compile SVN-Version into Project with qmake

[Martin Holmes]

I have a pre-build step in which I write something to a text file, then 
do a commit, before retrieving the version info. That way, every qmake 
operation increments the SVN revision number.

Cheers,
Martin

On 12-02-13 02:55 PM, Philipp Menke wrote:
> thanks, I tried some of the things from the weblinks but I could not
> bring it to work properly...
> That thing you wrote just works as I expect but I gut one question:
>
> Will the Variable SVNVERSION be updated every time I run make or just
> when I call qmake? So is the version.h always up to date?
>
> Thanks Philipp
>
> Am 13.02.2012 15:11, schrieb thomas vincent:
>> Hi,
>> Personally on Linux I use :
>>
>> SVNVERSION = $$system("svn info ../ | grep Revision | tr -d 'Revison: '")
>> system( "echo 'const std::string svn_version = \"$$SVNVERSION\";'">
>> ../version.h)
>>
>> Then you can include the "version.h" file when you need to use the
>> current SVN revision.
>> This gives a clean number (no letter and or working copy pre-commit
>> revision ...).
>>
>> I guess you can pass it to GCC from there ;).
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> 2012/2/8 André Pönitz<andre.poenitz at mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>:
>>> On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 08:09:19PM +0100, Philipp Menke wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I would like to compile the current Revision of my repository into my
>>>> code. How could I manage this with qmake?
>>>>
>>>> I think one could use "svn info | grep Revision" or sth like that to get
>>>> the current Revision number and pass this as a preprocessor-Define into
>>>> gcc.
>>>> But how could I have this been done automatically?
>>>>
>>>> Do you have any idea how to realise?
>>> Looks like the the problem came up before, see
>>>
>>>    http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-interest/2006-10/msg00596.html
>>>
>>> Seems to be also discussed on
>>>
>>>    http://colby.id.au/node/145
>>>    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5083441/how-to-add-pre-build-step-in-qmake-qtcreator
>>>    http://qtcreator.blogspot.com/2009/10/generating-automatic-version-numbers.html
>>>
>>> etc
>>>
>>> Andre'
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