Question

I know that in NetBeans and Visial you can somehow statically save the date and build time of your app. I’m building some software on a remote server with the g++ and I wonder if there is a way of creating for example something like this:

#define BUIL_DATE <here should be the compilation date>

That I could use later on in the app.

Answer 1

The __TIME__ and __DATE__ (GCC-specific) macros are what you’re looking for. For example:

#define BUILDSTAMP ( __DATE__ " " __TIME__ )

See: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Standard-Predefined-Macros.html