Code verison in executable file

[j0hnb]

Hi,

is there a straight forward way to have version information embedded in an executable? What I would like is to release a file and when the user does something like "program -v" they will be presented with the version information. The only way I can see just now to do it would be to parse the command line arguments looking for the -v option.

Is there any other ways of doing it - maybe by embedding something into the executable so that another command can help, such as 'file'?

Regards,

John.

[micmast]

looks doubtfull to me, I could be wrong, but I don't think file or any other file could do that.

[pronerd]

is there a straight forward way to have version information embedded in an executable?

Sure, but the way it would be done would depend on the language the executable was compiled from.

What I would like is to release a file and when the user does something like "program -v" they will be presented with the version information. The only way I can see just now to do it would be to parse the command line arguments looking for the -v option.

Yep that is the way it works. Generally any executable should be parsing and validating any arguments passed to it.