[Lazarus] Application Information

[Reinier Olislagers]

On 23/12/2013 20:16, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
> 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.
> 
And
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_Trunk#TVersionInfo_.28fileinfo_unit.29_re-implemented_in_a_platform_independent_way

no idea whether this has been backported to FPC 2.6.2/4...