Hello
We have a uv4 project that I would like to be built using an automated build tool.
The simplest way given that we already have a working project is to call uv4 from the command line.
c:\keil\uv4\uv4.exe -b PROJECTNAME.uvproj -o BuildOutput.txt
This seems to work fine.
What I would now like to do is include an automatically generated build number in the build process. Searching on the forum I thought I had found a solution by having a define=environment variable in the C preprocessor symbols dialog. However it seems that uv4 does not read environment variables. I also cannot see a command line option that would help with this either.
Any suggestions? Do I need to convert to building using a makefile?
Thanks Stephen
But wouldn't that also be the case with an automatic build number incrementer...?
Yes, if they are automatic as in "build_number = last_build_number+1".
But an automatic build process can also extract a build number from the repository or similar.
Sometimes, it can be good to have version control system tag + sequence number (or __TIME__) in the binary for in-house testing. Then you can build the same source code using different compiler options and test, to verify if they produce the same result.