Programmatically define OutputBaseFilename

[Paul Gardiner]

I'd like to make my installer's file name depend on my program's version. Inno is able to derive the program's version, process that string, and use the value in the definitions of variables, but OutputBaseFilename seems to be a special case, and doesn't permit {code:xx} uses in its definition. Is there a good workaround for this?

[Robert van der Hulst]

Paul,

Use the preprocessor.

Something like this:

#define Version             "a.b.c.d"

#define SetupExeName        "MySetup."+Version

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OutputBaseFilename={#SetupExeName}

Robert

Op donderdag 17 augustus 2023 om 12:00:26 UTC+2 schreef Paul Gardiner:

[Paul Gardiner]

Yes that did it, thanks Robert. The problem I was seeing was only when I tried to use GetVersionNumbersString rather than defining Version explicitly. I had been trying to do it from Pascal code. I hadn't realised that GetVersionNumbersString could be called from the preprocessor. This is a great: now I don't need to update the inno script for eash release.