Versioning / increasing build number
Versioning / increasing build number
- Subject: Versioning / increasing build number
- From: Stefan Wolfrum <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 11:40:45 +0100
A question about versioning. Information seems a bit sparse on this according to a few Google/cocoa-dev archives/ADC/Apple Discussions searches.
I want to have a consecutive build number (an integer counting up each new build) displayed in my application (in an NSTextField, About dialog).
Now I know how to access the Main/Major program version (string) from the main bundle (CFBundleVersion). But that's not the constantly increasing integer I am looking for.
What I did so far:
- in my project settings I set "Versioning System" to "Apple Generic"
- in my project settings I set "Current Project Version" to 1
I now get a file $(PRODUCT_NAME)_vers.c built in the folder
build/$(PRODUCT_NAME).build/Debug/$(PRODUCT_NAME).build/DerivedSources
It contains two variables and it looks like I'm interested in the second
const double $(PRODUCT_NAME)VersionNumber __attribute__ ((used)) = (double)1.;
However, I still have two questions:
1) How do I get access to this const in my source code? I guess I have to declare a const as "extern" somehow somewhere?! agvtool doc says this generated c file gets linked into the binary...
2) Right now the file doesn't get built new every time I build my application. So the number isn't increasing yet. How can this be achieved?
Thanks a lot!
Stefan._______________________________________________
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