Versioning of Binaries and Libraries in Linux

saleem_ak · 04-01-2009, 01:00 PM

Hi,

Is there any method of versioning of the binaries and libraries in linux, similar to what windows Visual Studio provides. This is required to maintain the version of the releases of my binaries and libraries. Later I could run some command on these binaries and libraries to know its version.

Regards
Saleem

theNbomr · 04-01-2009, 02:43 PM

You can use static strings containing version information, and later run strings against the binaries. You can even use CVS (maybe SVN too; I don't use SVN) tags embedded in your source code to automatically keep the version information up-to-date as revisions are checked out of the repository.

Code:

static char * filename_c = "\nfilename.c  $Revision: 1.4 $ $Date: 2008/03/05 23:20:37 $\n";

--- rod.

ta0kira · 04-01-2009, 05:02 PM

For subversion:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/s....keywords.html

I actually never knew you could do this. It's definitely something I'll use now.
Kevin Barry