[Lazarus] Application Information

[Reinier Olislagers]

On 23/12/2013 20:13, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Apologies for reformatting the message to conform to the usual
> bottom-posting convention.
> 
> Hew Lines wrote:
>> On 2013-12-23 9:18 AM, Bart wrote:
>>> On 12/23/13, Hew Lines <hewlines at shaw.ca> wrote:
>> I'm looking for
>> the version number of the compiled application. It is set in the Version
>> Info panel of the Project Options dialogue box and auto-incremented with
>> every build. I know that I can do it manually but am trying to see if I
>> can simply read the auto-incremented value from the Version Info
>> maintained by Lazarus.
> 
> I recall previous discussion of this. From what I remember you have to
> read resource information from the executable and that's OS-specific: I
> don't know whether anybody's consolidated this into a single class yet.

Cross-platform; see
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/fcl-res
there's file version code in fcl-res as well.