[Lazarus] Application Information

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Reinier Olislagers wrote:
> On 26/12/2013 10:11, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>>> On 26/12/2013 09:26, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>>>> Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>>>> OK, I'll do a very basic page "Show Application Title, Version, and
>>>> Company" i.e. similar to the existing one that somebody's filled with
>>>> code- I don't want to mess around with that until we know where it came
>>>> from.
> Updated the page. Includes working FPC 2.7.1 code for
> - (all) Windows exes
> - Lazarus-compiled ELF executables on Linux.

Definitely benefited from the attention of somebody who knew what he was 
doing :-)

I think the first example has lost its bit about being based on fcl-res, 
  or is that intentional because of the difference between 2.6 and 2.7?

> Not yet tested on OSX; if anybody does, please update the wiki page, thanks.

I'm hoping to find time to look at PPC OSX, but that will mean getting 
to grips with finding the Mac development stuff. Maybe next year...

>> I'll append a couple of hacks that I find useful. They're better in the
>> Wiki than discussed in email etc. since they rely on accurate backticks
>> and quoting.
> Added a cross-platform revision2inc solution :)

There was some reason I didn't use that. I can't remember the detail, 
but I think it didn't build on Solaris or something similarly odd.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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