Automatically adding date and time of compilation

[xProgrammer]

I wanted some automatic way of including the build date and time in my complied xHarbour/FiveLinux code. The method I came up with is as follows:

In the shell script that builds the application I get the system date and time and then pass it to the xHarbour compiler as a #define by using the -d compiler option.

The option is built as follows:

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builddate=$(date +"%d/%m/%Y@%T")
strBD=""
strBD+='-dkBDATE="'
strBD+=${builddate}
strBD+='"'

and applied as follows. Note that ${1} is the parameter containing the name of the source file to be compiled.

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  ./../../xharbour/bin/harbour ${1}.prg -n -I./../include -I./../../xharbour/include -q0 ${strBD}

Then you can use kBDATE in your program as you wish - in my case I include it in the title of the main window.

Regards
xProgrammer

[Antonio Linares]

Doug,

Nice solution, thanks for sharing it