Subj : Lazarus and FPC
To   : Dan Richter
From : Vince Coen
Date : Tue Jun 12 2018 13:55:33

Hello Dan!

Monday June 11 2018 19:53, you wrote to All:

 > Hi All,

 > I know there aren't many Pascal programmers around anymore, but I
 > thought I'd ask a question here, as I've been unable to find any info
 > on the internet.

 > I've been writing some programs in Pascal, using Lazarus 1.8.2 with
 > FPC 3.0.4, running under Ubuntu 18.04.

 > Is there a way to use the Lazarus version number set up in the Project
 > Options -=> Version Info, as a variable in the code?

 > Right now, I've just been changing the version number in both Lazarus,
 > and as a CONST in my programs. There have been a couple times, where I
 > forget one of them, and it causes confusion, at least on my part... :)

 > Thanks for any assistance.


If you use the configure;make build facilty you can create version, build
numbering within and just change the vars in configure.in before running the
build script.

AS for the info in a program is this for pickup during running or at the build
stage. If the later that is simple enough even if you issue a export
version-var before running in a script.

If the former you will need to check the fpc docs to see if there is a 
function
for it or write your own or again use an exported vars for your program to
pick up.

I do use the developed program version for displays and the printed reports 
but
the make script does make use of the compiler version sometimes but not often
as I am more concerned with the platform.


Vince

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