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Emanuele · Joined: 21 Oct 2009 Posts: 78 Location: Bologna (Italy)

In Visual Studio projects, both executables or dll, it is possible to define some assembly information (like company name, product version, copyright...), which will be visible in the compiled file properties. This can be easily obtained by setting appropriate values in the project properties page.

Is there a way to do the same thing for FTN95 projects (.NET mode), by setting compiler options or by coding?

PaulLaidler · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:10 am Post subject:

You can set the version number by using /ver on the dbk_link command line (or via the linker settings in a project) but, as far as I know, other values are automatically provided (or not) by the linker.

Emanuele · Joined: 21 Oct 2009 Posts: 78 Location: Bologna (Italy)

Thank you for the quick reply. That's ok for the version number, but other values remain blank. You said that the linker automatically provides or not the values of "company", "copyright" and so on, but depending on what? Where and when they should be set?

PaulLaidler · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 4:17 pm Post subject:

What I meant was that the linker adds this information for some fields but leaves others blank. I don't know of a way to fill in the blanks except for us to add extra options to the linker for you.

Emanuele · Joined: 21 Oct 2009 Posts: 78 Location: Bologna (Italy)

Wow, it would be grate! In fact it is not a vital point, but it maight be useful not only for me...
Thank you again.

PaulLaidler · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:14 pm Post subject:

Which are the most important? Let's suppose I can add two more fields.

Emanuele · Joined: 21 Oct 2009 Posts: 78 Location: Bologna (Italy)

Thank you very much Paul.
In my opinion the most important are:
1) copyright
2) product description
3) company

Of course this ranking is questionable!

PaulLaidler · Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:47 am Post subject:

Maybe the simplest solution will be to get dbk_link to accept a .cs file on the command line, this file containing standard [assembly: ...] instructions.

Emanuele · Joined: 21 Oct 2009 Posts: 78 Location: Bologna (Italy)

I think this solution is very close to what Visual Studio actually does.

PaulLaidler · Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 4:48 pm Post subject:

I have added this feature to the linker for the next release.

Emanuele · Joined: 21 Oct 2009 Posts: 78 Location: Bologna (Italy)

Thank you very much! Very Happy

Emanuele · Joined: 21 Oct 2009 Posts: 78 Location: Bologna (Italy)

Is this feature already added to 6.20 release or it will come with the next one?

PaulLaidler · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:05 am Post subject:

Hopefully it is in the current release. I have not checked.
You should now be able to include an standard assembly file on the DBK_LINK command line.