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Merge Request #2 · created by Peter M. Groen


Add version information to projectheader

Versioning as a submodule will be deprecated. To enable the version on libraries, we need to add version information ( obtained from git ) in the projectheader. This is a macro used in every makefile so it seems like the most logical place.


From feat/pgroen/set_software_version into master

Merged by Steven de Ridder

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projectheader.cmake
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3 3 # @param CURRENT_PROJECT_BINARY_DIR [optional] Override for the default project binary dir (PROJECT_BINARY_DIR for executables, CMAKE_BINARY_DIR for libraries).
4 4 macro ( project_header CURRENT_PROJECT_NAME )
5 5  
  6 +# Determine the version and fill the following variables :
  7 +# SOVERSION : The tag from the git-repository. Not necessarily a number-only string.
  8 +find_package(Git QUIET)
  9 +
  10 +if(GIT_FOUND)
  11 + if( EXISTS "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/.git")
  12 + execute_process(COMMAND ${GIT_EXECUTABLE} describe --abbrev=0 --tags
  13 + WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
  14 + OUTPUT_VARIABLE CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION
  15 + OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
  16 + message( STATUS "================================================================" )
  17 + message( STATUS "Found the following tag : ${CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION}")
  18 + message( STATUS "================================================================" )
  19 + else()
  20 + message( STATUS ".git directory does not exists..")
  21 + message( STATUS "Project directory : ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}")
  22 + endif()
  23 +else()
  24 + message( STATUS "git-command not found....")
  25 + message( FATAL "Unable to determine the version of the software.")
  26 +endif()
  27 +
6 28 message( STATUS "" )
7 29 message( STATUS "================================================================" )
8 30 message( STATUS "Creating Makefile of ${CURRENT_PROJECT_NAME}" )
9 31 message( STATUS "================================================================" )
10 32 message( STATUS "CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION: ${CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION}" )
11 33  
  34 +set(SOVERSION "${CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION}")
  35 +set(VERSION "${CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION}")
  36 +
12 37 project(${CURRENT_PROJECT_NAME} VERSION ${CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION})
13 38 set_property(GLOBAL PROPERTY GLOBAL_DEPENDS_NO_CYCLES 1)
14 39  
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