[Lazarus] Lazarus Version

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 15:20:22 +0000
Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

> On 08/11/16 13:30, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 13:08:41 +0100 (CET)Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:  
> >> [...]> I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing. I don't know what 'version> unit' you mean ?  
> > For example lazarus/lcl/lclversion.pas  
> 
> I don't want to hijack anybody else's thread, but I habitually use that 
> file to get version info so that I can always find out what compiler 
> etc. has been used to build a binary.

How does lclversion tell you the used compiler?


> The one downside of this is that I 
> end up with a -Fu $(LazarusDir)/lcl which (I suspect) contributes to the 
> entire LCL being rebuilt more often than is strictly necessary.

Alternative: add lclbase as requirement in the project inspector.

Mattias