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19 years ago

Software Config Control

Hi all,

I'm wanting to keep track of software builds. What I do on other platforms, is run an executable that increments a number stored in a file called version.h. Thus the executable reads the current number, increments it by 1 and then writes it back. Then in my code, I read the number as a string from that header file.

I need to run the executable everytime I build my project. (I'm sure there must be place to specify any command lines to be executed before/after building the project)

I'm using the NIOS IDE. Does anybody have any suggestions???

Regards,

Tyrone

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    19 years ago

    Search for topic "touch file"

    This shows how to add a make file that will run the commands of your choice on every build. I use it to update the build time and date in my source code.
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    19 years ago

    Select project/properties from menu (or by right clicking your your project). In the properties select Builders and add a new builder before "altera generated makefile builder'". You can specify any command you like and your command is executed at every build before altera makefile.

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    19 years ago

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    originally posted by keijo@Jun 1 2006, 07:45 AM

    select project/properties from menu (or by right clicking your your project). in the properties select builders and add a new builder before "altera generated makefile builder'". you can specify any command you like and your command is executed at every build before altera makefile.

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    Thanx keijo,

    It seems to work great. Only thing is that when I rebuild it seems like the .EXE is runs twice as my version number increments by 2 everytime. It&#39;s not critical though, as long as I have something for now!

    Cheers,

    Tyrone