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Re: date-time info at compile time
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Re: date-time info at compile time


  • Subject: Re: date-time info at compile time
  • From: Paul M <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 17:39:46 +1200

On 15/05/2009, at 1:49 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote:

Ray, Jeffrey R. {Jeff}(DFRC-ME) wrote:
On 5/14/09 4:16 PM, "Paul M" <email@hidden> wrote:

I have a Makefile which generates a date-time spec when it runs, and
passes that into my code as a #Define, thereby allowing me to
automaticaly include build info in the executable.

I'd like to find a way to do this from within XCode.

We had to do something similar. I didn't know xcode very well (still don't,
actually) so my solution may seem a bit convoluted.


I created a header, which extern's the date and time statements. This gets
included where necessary.


I created a target, and added to that target a run script phase. In this
script, I put a bunch of setenv commands to simulate the variable from the
makefile. It then ran an external script file (common to all the unix
platforms my app runs on), which generates a .cpp containing the actual
date/time statements.


I created a second target, dependant on the first. It compiles the .cpp

I added the resulting .o to my app(s).

Probably stupid question: Why not just use the __DATE__ and __TIME__ macros?

Peter
--

I give up, why aren't I using those? ... I feel a bit silly now.

I may have created the makefile before I knew about those macros, and have used
variants of it ever since. Or something.


Thanks
paulm

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