[Box Backup-dev] Win32 client

[Ben Summers]

On 29 Jun 2006, at 01:13, Chris Wilson wrote:

> Hi Andrei,
>
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Andrei wrote:
>
>> I downloaded and compiled the windows client from cvs (Chris trunk),
>> but the (compiled) client says it is version 0.09hWin32. The binary I
>> downloaded earlier said 0.10 (Chris version).
>
> Did you compile with Microsoft Visual Studio? If so, then this is  
> expected behaviour. Visual Studio doesn't know how to get the  
> version out of Subversion or read the VERSION.TXT file, so the  
> version is hard-coded to "0.09hWin32" in lib/win32/emu.h.
>
> I've patched up my tree for now, but we should really find a better  
> solution.


http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s02.html#svn-ch-7-sect-2.3.4

But only for one special Win32 only file, please.

Ben