Question

Project in Delphi 2007, stored in SVN.

“Project settings – version info” – there the project version is stored.
When changing the project version *.dproj file and *.res file are changing.
And I have to commit them to SVN every time when project version changes.

I want to manage project version with SVN.
For example, when building the project from svn tag named “1.12.2” and revision 12993 I want to get a binary *.exe file with version 1.12.2.12993.

To make it, I should create a *.rc file with text presentation of version info. Then make a *.res file and include it to project with {$R version.res}

What shold I write to *.rc file? What should it’s structure look like?
White an example, please.

Thanks.

Answer 1

The VERSIONINFO resource is documented on MSDN. A typical such resource script looks like this:

1 VERSIONINFO
FILEVERSION 1,12,2,12993
PRODUCTVERSION 1,12,2,12993
FILEOS 0x40004L
FILETYPE 0x1L
BEGIN
  BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
  BEGIN
    BLOCK "000004E4"
      BEGIN
        VALUE "CompanyName", "My Company\0"
        VALUE "FileDescription", "My Program\0"
        VALUE "FileVersion", "My Program\0"
        VALUE "LegalCopyright", "My Company 2012\0"
      END
  END
  BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
  BEGIN
    VALUE "Translation", 0x0000 0x04E4
  END
END