[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add versioning information to dlls

Ramiro Polla ramiro
Thu May 22 18:50:40 CEST 2008


Hello,

>>>> +
>>>> +    cat <<EOF >$TMPRC
>>>> +#include <WinVer.h>
>>>> +#include "version.h"
>>>> +VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
>>>> + FILEVERSION $version_commas
>>>> + PRODUCTVERSION $version_commas
>>>> + FILEFLAGSMASK 0x17L
>>>> + FILEFLAGS 0x0L
>>>> + FILEOS VOS__WINDOWS32
>>>> + FILETYPE VFT_DLL
>>>> + FILESUBTYPE 0x0L
>>>> +BEGIN
>>>> +    BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
>>>> +    BEGIN
>>>> +        BLOCK "040904b0"
>>>> +        BEGIN
>>>> +            VALUE "Comments",            "$license_str"
>>>> +                                         "Source code is available at http://ffmpeg.org"
>>>> +            VALUE "CompanyName",         "FFmpeg"
>>>> +            VALUE "FileDescription",     "$description"
>>>> +            VALUE "FileVersion",         "$version"
>>>> +            VALUE "InternalName",        "$name"
>>>> +            VALUE "LegalCopyright",      "(C) 2000-2008 Fabrice Bellard, et al."
>>>> +            VALUE "LegalTrademarks",     "FFmpeg"
>>>> +            VALUE "OriginalFilename",    "$dllname-$major.dll"
>>>>     
>>>>       
>>> Get the version information from av*.h
>>>
>>>   
>>>     
>> that would be for $version, $major and $version_commas correct?
>>
>>   
> 
> Actually the versions come from those files, see get_version.

At configure time rather than compile time. If the version is updated 
but configure is not run again, the old version information will 
persist. *** Oh, it seems the build system is not ready at all for this 
kind of change. It hardcodes the filenames to the version found at 
configure time. So I guess this is not a problem for now.

>>> You can also let the dependency files (.d) check for version.h and 
>>> av*.h. Just add a rule for %.d: %.rc, add the extra objs to DEPS, and 
>>> make a DEPEND_CMD for .rc files that treats them as C files (-xc flag 
>>> for gcc). That way you can avoid SLIB_EXTRA_DEP.
>> Can you elaborate?

I'll try:
Currently you set SLIB_EXTRA_DEP to version.h manually. That means: if 
version.h is changed, recreate whatever files depended on them (in this 
case SLIB_EXTRA_OBJS). When I wrote the first patch, there was no good 
file dependency control like there is now. We can let the current 
dependency control check for whatever files SLIB_EXTRA_OBJS depends on. 
It automatically scans the file for includes or whatever.
To get that for .rc files, add a rule that creates .d files for .rc 
files (just look at all the "%.d: %.*" rules in common.mak).
One problem that arises is that gcc doesn't know .rc files are actually 
.c-like files that can be preprocessed correctly, so you have to find a 
way for DEPEND_CMD (for the "%.d: %.rc" rule) to add the "-xc" flag to 
the gcc invocation.
After that is done, add $(SLIB_EXTRA_OBJS:.o=.d) to DEPS in common.mak 
so that dllinfo.d files are created. Then it should be safe to remove 
SLIB_EXTRA_DEP.

Ramiro Polla




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