> I'm still not sure how I would go about implementing it.

Let's say you have an include file:

buildno.h:
--------------
#define BUILDNO 1234

then you have a Perl script for example, something like:

incbuild.pl:
----------------
#!/usr/bin/perl
my ($filename) = @ARGV;
open(FILE, '<', $filename) or die "Error: Could not open file \"$filename\"
($!)";
@incfile = readline(FILE);
close(FILE);
# now we just look for the BUILDNO definition and increase it's value
open (FILE, '>', $filename) or die "Error: Could not overwrite file
\"$filename\" ($!)";
foreach (@incfile) {
    if ( /^#define\s+BUILDNO\s+(\d+)/ ) {
        print FILE "#define BUILDNO ". $1+1 ."\n";
    }
    else {
        print FILE;
    }
}
close(FILE);

...And now we can put this script to our project into the pre-build option:

incbuildno.pl buildno.h

Now we can inlucde this buildno.h into C or even into ASM projects with

#include "buildno.h"

And i think pretty much that's it...

Tamas
PS: I did not test this script yet, just quickly typed in into this mail so
maybe it does not even work but I hope you got the idea.



On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Vitaliy <spam@maksimov.org> wrote:

> Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> > The pre-build BAT file (or whatever) runs some
> > program that increments a "version" an writes
> > it to some ASM include file as an EQU statement.
> > That ASM file is then #include'ed in the
> > main application.
>
> I'm still not sure how I would go about implementing it.
>
>
> > Now the question is if one realy wants the *version*
> > to be incremented with every build. Maybe some
> > "build" number...
>
> Yeah, that's exactly what I'm after. Normally, you have:
>
> <MAJ_VERSION>.<SUB_VERSION>.<BUILD_NUMBER>
>
> I would want it to auto-increment the build number automatically,
> preferably
> only when it's a build as opposed to a make.
>
> Has anyone done this sort of thing in MPLAB? I've been incrementing the
> build number manually for now...
>
>
> Vitaliy
>
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