pass version number as parameter when building

[Pablo Carbonell]

Hello! I'm looking to fill the productversion and fileversion automatically by passing them as parameters to the linker.

Here's what I tried so far.

I found on the documentation for variables that it says the following:

You can substititute environment variables with the %VARIABLE% syntax, eg. %TEMP%. It is not recommended to rely on environment variables for system locations, use path variables instead.

So I am storing an environment variable in the command line, for example:

set VersionNumber=1.0.8.1

Then I tried to write %VersionNumber% in productversion and this makes the linker fail with an error of invalid xml. I tried also to go to the list of properties and add the ProductVersion property with the value %VersionNumber%, and this generates the string '%VersionNumber%' without making any substitution. Lowercase/uppercase does not seem to make a difference.

[Daniel D.]

It has been a while since I did this. I don't believe substitution happens in InstallerLinker's configuration supplied and the documentation is referring to when the installer actually runs. I could be wrong too ...

I think most people preprocess the configuration file template into one that has all the right properties. For example https://thecodeking.co.uk/article/creating-a-localized-windows-installer-bootstrapper-part-4/ uses a nant task to do it.

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[Pablo Carbonell]

Thanks for the link!

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