I gather there is no universal standard for putting version numbers into executables on Linux, in contrast to Windows which requires a certain structure for those details.
FreePascal has made its own standard and Delphi lets you define Version information for a Linux executable.
If we can put Version information in, we must be able to get it back out? How? Specifically on Linux64?
I have searched *.pas and *.inc in Studio\19.0\source\rtl\posix and I have not found anything on 'version' nor 'fileinfo' that could help.
Back with Kylix, I used to use argp_program_version from libc.
On a clean new DUnitX project, after adding {$ *.res} to the DPR so that the version information will stick, I can look at Project Options for Linux64 and I can see that they have a CFBundleVersion number defaulting to 1.0.0 for the project. How can I get the CFBundleVersion at runtime in my Linux64 executable?
Or, if that is not possible, could/should Delphi match the FreePascal standard and put the fileinfo into something which both Lazarus and Delphi could view at runtime??
This excerpt (metioned at both Windows and MacOS/iOS sections) from https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Alexandria/en/Version_Info may help:
Go to Tools > Options > IDE > Environment Variables and add a new User variable called SAVEVRC with Value=TRUE. This variable enables the generation of a .vrc file with an auto generated build number and other information.
another excerpt from there (not sure if related to the aforementioned SAVEVRC or not) is:
Note: If you define the VersionInfo resource and add it to the project via a $R directive in the project file, the compiler will ignore settings of Version Info at Project Options dialog box and use the custom resource data instead, given an application can have only one VersionInfo resource on Windows.
Related
Apparently anything GUI-related in terms of components involves XML. I cannot go around actually configuring and building wxWidgets from source because of that. I'm new to wxWidgets.
My current setup is on Win10 with MSVC v141 (Visual Studio 2017) with the latest CMake version (currently 3.21).
Inside the config.cmake of the wxWidgets projects (using latest master branch) I see
wx_get_dependencies(EXTRALIBS_XML xml)
I am also calling CMake with -DwxUSE_XML=ON (among other parameters) but this still leads to:
the XML dependency is nowhere to be found
respectively it's not built
Linking then fails with the following error:
LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'wxxml.lib' [C:\Users\...\CMakeBuilds\ef5b5ada-ee42-7735-988a-ae37c735ccff\build\deps\build\wxwidgets\libs\qa\wxqa.vcxproj]
What library is actually wxWidgets using and how do I trigger it's retrieval and accordingly configuration and building? Since I am adding wxWidgets to my CMake project as an ExternalProject component, I would appreciated something in that line of thought. However any kind of information regarding this issue is more than welcome especially since it will shine light on how to configure other features (if I want them in the future) such as WebView.
The wxxml.lib issue is fixed now. While fixing it I also discovered a bug (of sort) in the build system of wxWidgets.
The reason why it failed to build this library in particular was actually quite simple but due to the lack of knowledge in the dependencies of wxWidgets. I thought that wxWidgets, given it depends on XML so much, has its own XML parser. Well, not really. The wxXML component actually uses and underlying 3rd party dependency called EXPAT, which - as you can see in my question - I have deactivated since it was giving me issues during the build (due to the still present problem of not being able to automatically retrieve dependencies).
What I did was to clone the libexpat repository, add it as an ExternalProject, set the variables for the libraries and include directory and pass them onto my wxWidgets project. But there is a catch...
The expat.cmake file looks as follows:
#############################################################################
# Name: build/cmake/lib/expat.cmake
# Purpose: Use external or internal expat lib
# Author: Tobias Taschner
# Created: 2016-09-21
# Copyright: (c) 2016 wxWidgets development team
# Licence: wxWindows licence
#############################################################################
if(wxUSE_EXPAT STREQUAL "builtin")
# TODO: implement building expat via its CMake file, using
# add_subdirectory or ExternalProject_Add
wx_add_builtin_library(wxexpat
src/expat/expat/lib/xmlparse.c
src/expat/expat/lib/xmlrole.c
src/expat/expat/lib/xmltok.c
)
set(EXPAT_LIBRARIES wxexpat)
set(EXPAT_INCLUDE_DIRS ${wxSOURCE_DIR}/src/expat/expat/lib)
elseif(wxUSE_EXPAT)
find_package(EXPAT REQUIRED)
endif()
I would use the *.cmake files of the 3rd party dependencies stored inside <ROOT_OF_WXWIDGETS_PROJECT>/build/cmake/lib to determine which variables I need to set if builtin is selected as the value for the respective library. Since I want to use my own I need sys (e.g. -DwxUSE_EXPAT=sys as a CMAKE_ARGS inside my wxWidgets ExternalProject) and also to pass the headers and libraries accordingly.
Given the file above one would assume that EXPAT_LIBRARIES is required. However after failing to build (yet again) and seeing that the reason was the activated expat build and that it was set as builtin I checked the log in detail and found the following error:
Could NOT find EXPAT (missing: EXPAT_LIBRARY) (found version "2.2.6")
Notice the EXPAT_LIBRARY. After passing it (-DEXPAT_LIBRARY=...) my build was complete. For me this is a bug or simply inconsistency between the dependency cmake file and the rest of the wxWidgets project.
It is important to note that I do not retrieve the external dependency through wxWidgets itself (see config.cmake and more precisely the macro wx_get_dependencies(...)). This solves the problem with a basic configuration and build of wxWidgets but if you don't want to tackle every dependency of wxWidgets on your own (why should you?), I recommend looking for a solution where the dependencies (at least the ones you don't want to deal with) are automatically retrieved, configured and build as builtin.
I have a fairly new project on github that produces a shared library. Going forward, I would like to use semantic versioning (as described at semver.org) for the shared library major/minor/patch numbers in the file name. The project uses CMake. The CMakeLists.txt file refers to CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_MAJOR, CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_MINOR and CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_PATCH, and sets these to default values if they are not passed in on the command line.
My plan is to branch on ABI changes and API additions, according to semantic versioning principles.
I know github has support for creating and naming release packages containing the project source based on git tags. But I do not see a way to propagate the major, minor and patch numbers to the shared library name when the github user builds a release on their machine.
For example, if I have a branch called, myproj_1_2, and a release tag called myproj_rel_1_2_9, is there a way to have the shared library built by a user be name libmyproj.so.1.2.9?
Is this just a matter of documenting that a user should pass the build name information on the cmake command line, and the have the CMakeLists.txt file parse this and set CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_MAJOR, CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_MINOR and CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_PATCH accordingly, or is there a more elegant way to do this?
Your statement about how CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_XXX is set is incorrect. The CPack variables in question are set by the project command if the project command specifies versioning. So when you create the 1.2.9 branch you would set 1.2.9 as the version number in the project command.
From CPack Help
CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_MAJOR
Package major version. This variable will always be set, but its default value depends on whether or not version details were given to
the project() command in the top level CMakeLists.txt file. If version
details were given, the default value will be
CMAKE_PROJECT_VERSION_MAJOR. If no version details were given, a
default version of 0.1.1 will be assumed, leading to
CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_MAJOR having a default value of 0.
Project command
> project(<PROJECT-NAME>
> [VERSION <major>[.<minor>[.<patch>[.<tweak>]]]]
> [DESCRIPTION <project-description-string>]
> [HOMEPAGE_URL <url-string>]
> [LANGUAGES <language-name>...])
If you don't want to set the VERSION via the project command then there are multiple other ways of setting the relevant variables.
Examples are located:
https://cmake.org/cmake-tutorial/
Also look at how CMake handles versions:
https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/blob/master/Source/CMakeVersionSource.cmake
https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/blob/master/Source/cmVersionConfig.h.in
Another example of how to get git meta data for setting version related information:
https://github.com/pmirshad/cmake-with-git-metadata/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt
HOW I CAME ACROSS THIS
I wrote code for a simple stopwatch which can also double up as a Rubik's cube timer. The source code and the executable are here:
Cube timer
Anyway my doubt is not regarding this code(It works fine).
I downloaded the executable that I had uploaded to check if it worked fine and at that time I was greeted with this screen:
Open file - security warning
And under this dialogue box there was a field that said:
Publisher : Unknown Publisher
SCREEN SHOT:
DOUBT
Is there some way programatically or otherwise by which I can change the publisher field?
SPECS
I have compiled the code with Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Express.
You can easily change the publisher, either when linking/compiling by setting the appropriate resources for your project (e.g. CompanyName), or modifying the resources with a resource editor.
Your problem is really that there is no signature, so even if a publisher field is present it cannot be trusted.
You can find an example resource rc file near the end of http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa381058%28v=vs.85%29.aspx.
To add resources to your VC project check:
How do I embed version information into a windows binary?
VC++ 2012: How to include version info from version.inc (maintained separately) into the .rc file
The .rc file(s) will be compiled to binary (.res) and linked into your final executable.
To add or modify an existing executable, you should be able to use this tool (login required, this will cause the signature to be invalid in an already signed binary of course).
The Microsoft Authenticode documentation includes tutorials.
CAcert.org will sign a certificate you can use, and have instructions for getting started with Authenticode.
Sorry I can't be more helpful with VC, I don't use it, I usually using mingw and make, from some time ago targetting win32:
given a VERSIONINFO in a text version.rc file use mingw32-windres to compile it to a .o file (I actually had a bunch of .rc files, they were each #include-d in a single resources.rc so I only needed to run windres on that single file, and link a single extra object file)
include that version.o (or combined resources.o) in the final CC command, assuming compile and link to executable in one step
I also included -lversion when linking, AFAIR this was just because I used GetFileVersionInfo() for the code to check and display its own version in the 'About' dialog.
Make your program in a batch file, then using Advanced BAT to EXE Converter, convert it to EXE & fill out all of the fields. This sure helped me! :)
I am developing a Linux kernel module (driver) for an embedded system in the Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Linux Developers (Indigo SR2). I have added the kernel's include directory to my project's paths to index (Project > Properties > C/C++ General > Paths and Sybmols -> Includes (tab) -> Add ... (button).) However, several of the kernel's header files refer to the asm dir, which is really an overlay of the linux/asm-powerpc directory (in my case) over the top of the linux/asm-generic directory, where the specific version overrides the generic.
How can I tell Eclipse's indexer to interpret "asm" as "asm-powerpc" first, and if that fails, then look in "asm-generic" second, instead of just looking for "asm"? Symlinking asm-powerpc to asm helps some, but too many header files exist only in the generic location to make this usable.
Thanks!
As I have discovered, there are many pieces required to direct Eclipse to index similarly to the kernel build process. However, the answer to this specific question was fairly simple:
Assuming your Linux kernel build directory is defined as ${KDIR}, and your kernel architecture is ${ARCH}, then you need to add the following include paths to your project:
${KDIR}/include
${KDIR}/arch/${ARCH}/include
You can do this in the Project Explorer, by right clicking the project, then Properties > C/C++ General > Paths and Symbols > Includes (tab) > Add ... (button).
I was missing the second entry. Adding it resolved this question. With these 2 entries, checking for unresolved includes (Right click Project > Index > Search for Unresolved Includes) produced 0 errors.
Now I have hit another stumbling block. Some of the types (like, u32 and bool) are still undefined in Eclipse. (My Makefile does not produce any errors.) I believe this is related to some kernel specific variables being undefined in the Eclipse header parsing, causing the include's IFDEF's to not be evaluated the same as during the kernel module compilation. But, I have not resolved this yet, and that pertains to another question. :)
Instead of adding the paths per project, one can also add global environment variables to Eclipse CDT.
For Eclipse Kepler, in Window > Preferences > C/C++ > Build > Environment, add variables:
C_INCLUDE_PATH = /usr/include/c++/${gcc-version}
CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH = /usr/include:${KDIR}/include:${KDIR}/include/linux:${KDIR}/arch/${ARCH}/include
Replace ${var} above with real entries, e.g. replace ${gcc-version} with 4.6.3.
Then restart Eclipse and variables should be properly resolved.
For Kernel module development these are probably enough.
If one needs to read the whole Kernel source, read this link:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/HowTo_use_the_CDT_to_navigate_Linux_kernel_source
I am trying to build an application which depends on Boost. So I downloaded Boost 1_41_0 to my Linux box and followed the instructions found on the Boost site for Unix variants,
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html.
They basically suggest that I run ./bjam install, which I did. The build completed successfully. However, the library names don't seem to match the Boost naming convention described both in the documentation above, and what is specified in the makefile of the application I am trying to build.
I noticed that there are a bunch of options that I can specify to bjam and I tried to play with those, but no matter what happens I can't seem to get it quite right. My understanding is that the libraries should go into the $BOOST_ROOT/lib directory. This is where the libraries show up, but named:
libboost_thread.a
libboost_thread.so
libboost_thread.so.1.41.0
I'd expect them to be named libboost_thread-gcc41-mt-d-1_41_0 or something similar.
I did try ./bjam --build-type=complete --layout=tagged and I see:
libboost_thread.a
libboost_thread-mt.a
libboost_thread-mt-d.a
libboost_thread-mt-d.so
libboost_thread-mt-d.so.1.41.0
libboost_thread-mt-s.a
libboost_thread-mt-sd.a
libboost_thread-mt.so
libboost_thread-mt.so.1.41.0
libboost_thread.so
libboost_thread.so.1.41.0
So, I am not sure if I should just make stage my -L directory? Is there any documentation which describe this in more detail?
The names was changed in 1.40.0 - see in release notes:
Build System
The default naming of libraries in
Unix-like environment now matches
system conventions, and does not
include various decorations.
They probably forgot to update this part in the build documentation.
There are two variables here. First is "install" vs. "stage" (default). "install" copies both libraries and headers into a directory -- /usr/local by default, and you can then remove source tree. "stage" puts libraries to "stage/lib", and you should add "-L /stage/lib -I " flags.
Second is --layout=versioned and --layout=system. It seems like you have discovered what they do already, and indeed, system is default since 1.40. The getting started guide fails to mention this, and I've added an action item to update it. Ideally, you should talk to the authors of the application to use the system naming of boost libraries. If that's not possible, then building with --layout=versioned is the only option.
From the Boost documentation at http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/more/getting_started/windows.html#library-naming, the convention is:
-mt Threading tag: indicates that the library was built with multithreading support enabled. Libraries built without multithreading support can be identified by the absence of -mt.
-d ABI tag: encodes details that affect the library's interoperability with other compiled code. For each such feature, a single letter is added to the tag:
Key Use this library when:
s linking statically to the C++ standard library and compiler runtime support libraries.
g using debug versions of the standard and runtime support libraries.
y using a special debug build of Python.
d building a debug version of your code.
p using the STLPort standard library rather than the default one supplied with your compiler.
n using STLPort's deprecated “native iostreams” feature.
For example, if you build a debug version of your code for use with debug versions of the static runtime library and the STLPort standard library in “native iostreams” mode, the tag would be: -sgdpn. If none of the above apply, the ABI tag is ommitted.