Add version info to bitcoind.exe? #1846

issue Diapolo opened this issue on September 21, 2012

Diapolo commented at 5:45 PM on September 21, 2012: none

Would it be possible to somehow add the version information that bitcoin-qt.exe got with 0.7 could be added to bitcoind.exe, too? I'm not sure if there is a windres-pass for bitcoind during compilation or how it could be added, but perhaps a dev can comment.
Diapolo commented at 5:47 PM on September 21, 2012: none

I found that one: http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MS_resource_compiler
laanwj commented at 7:54 PM on September 21, 2012: member

Yes, it would work exactly the same as with bitcoin-qt, with a res file that gets compiled and linked into the exe file. You'd need to add it to the mingw/mingw-linux makefiles.
Diapolo commented at 6:23 AM on September 18, 2013: none

@theuni Could you help with adding meta-information to bitcoind.exe with autotools? The .rc file we use for bitcoin-qt.exe could be used I guess.
theuni commented at 6:30 AM on September 18, 2013: member

as @laanwj said, windres is already detected and used for qt. Just need to create a similar .rc and add a rule for it.
Diapolo commented at 1:19 PM on September 18, 2013: none

@theuni I have no clue, how to do that. I could create a .rc file but that's it. I looked at makefile.am in src and src\qt and don't know how to make it working. Help please ;-).
Diapolo commented at 8:47 AM on October 4, 2013: none

Thanks @theuni for creating the patch, closing!
Diapolo closed this on Oct 4, 2013
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