[Qt-interest] Auto-Incremented Build Number for my Project

[Josiah Bryan]

Adam Gibson wrote:
> This may help you:
> 
> http://wiki.qtcentre.org/index.php?title=Version_numbering_using_QMake

Hey thanks! On first glance, looks perfect! I'll try and implement it 
today for both linux and windows.

Thanks again for the quick response.

Cheers!
-josiah

> 
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Josiah Bryan 
> <jbryan at productiveconcepts.com <mailto:jbryan at productiveconcepts.com>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     Hey All -
> 
>     Here's the goal: An auto-incremented build number that I can access from
>     my program (via a define or symbol - dont matter), that increments each
>     time I call make (on linux) or build it with QtCreator on windows.
> 
>     On linux - thats easy - just hack Makefile with some custom build target
>     definitions and run a small perl or bash script each build to increment
>     a 'special' file or whatever. But since the Makefile is auto-gen'd by
>     qmake, I imagine I'd have to do something fancy in my .pro file to
>     re-add my Makfile-changes every time qmake regens the project file. On
>     windows, I'm a bit murky - not sure how I'd get it done there.
> 
>     What I'm wondering is if there is any "Standard" way using .pro files to
>     tell qmake to autoinc a build number for me without me having to do any
>     special "hacks". Anyone have any leads or pointers on it? Or am I on my
>     own for this one?
> 
>     Thanks!
>     -josiah
> 
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>     Josiah Bryan
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