Re: How do I use different version values in executables?

From:

David Wilkinson <no-reply@effisols.com>

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microsoft.public.vc.ide_general

Date:

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:20:48 -0400

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Charles A Richardson wrote:

I guess I"m not following. I"m not an expert on the .rc and .rc2 files.
Whats the difference? Where do the conditionals go? I noticed that if
I edit things through the resource editor it changes the .rc file, so
Im' not sure how the .rc2 file is edited.

When I open the .rc file I see the
VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
FILEVERSION 1,0,0,1

If I add another version string, I get:
IDR_VERSION2 VERSIONINFO
FILEVERSION 2,0,0,1

I want to use VS_VERSION_INFO for the vs60 build and IDR_VERSION2 for
the vs2008 build. What do I added to the .rc2 file?

Sorry, I???m just not familiar w/ this stuff. If there's other info I can
read for this, just point me in the directions.

Charles:

You do not want two different version info's, you want different versions of the
same version info.

Open resource view, right-click the version resource and select "Insert copy".
In the resulting dialog type a condition like VS2008. Now if the symbol VS2008
is defined in your VS2008 project settings your new version info will be used.

The .rc2 file must be edited by hand as a text file. I actually leave the
version info in the .rc file, but I have a conditional section in the .rc2 file
where I change some other things.

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP