Artifact Filename based on a Fw costant

[MPast.1]

Hi All,

I need to obtain an artifact with the name present in some costant in "main.h".

In other words, my project is called "TestProject" and main.h I have these costants:

#define GUI_MAJOR_VER 		0		// Major
#define GUI_MINOR_VER 		1		// Minor
#define GUI_RELEASE_VER 	3		// Release

I would like to ahve a final executable named "TestProject v013.hex"

This means that every time I will change the #defines in main.h, output file will change automatically with a new numeration.

Does someone has some suggestion? or better, an example?

thanks in advance for your help.

[Pavel A.]

Sure, you can do this in post-build action: Extract the version numbers from the .h file, then copy or rename the hex file.

Post-build action can be a "unix" shell script (sh is provided in the CubeIDE environment) so we don't have to ****  with ******* bat files.

[MPast.1]

HI @Pavel A. ,

thanks for suggestion but I should want a practical example to copy the various instructions.

you told about  ready scripts on CubeIDE: can you sueggest to me the folder?

Do I need to search for *.bat files? or on makefiles?

 thanks.

[Pavel A.]

Apologies for been not clear enough. There are no ready examples of such scripts. I only said that we can use the normal "unix" shell tool, even on Windows. Which is easier than dreadful bat files.

The post-build command goes into the project settings:

As you see, CubeIDE variables can be used in the commands, with ${...} syntax.

[MPast.1]

Ok, now I understood that I need to use post-build section on project settings.

My problem is that I don't know the syntax that I must insert on the command string.

For example How can extract values form main.h? and, How can I compose a new filename?

in other words, this is my first time for this problem and I need a reference guide/example to learn the various command to be autonomous.

Do you kwnow same link for the references?

Thanks

[Pavel A.]

Hmm. Extracting version numbers from the .h file can be done with "awk" for example. Perhaps ask the AI ? ))

[Tesla DeLorean]

You could also just write a native command line application.

One that could take the file name as a command line parameter, use fopen(), fseek(), ftell(), fread() etc, like a C coder, do file manipulation and naming there.

I'm not sure you'd be able to fish out the source files, but the .BIN you could go search the binary for a tag where you embedded this data. Or perhaps parse the .ELF and pull things out of that as symbols, or pre-processor MACROs

[Pavel A.]

To get the version as string: make a small C file, for example ver.c  ver.h  [edited - use .h suffix so that Eclipse won't add it to the project as a source file]

#include "main.h"

#define STRINGIFY(w) #w
#define MAKEVERS(x, y, z) STRINGIFY(x) "." STRINGIFY(y) "." STRINGIFY(z)

MAKEVERS(GUI_MAJOR_VER, GUI_MINOR_VER, GUI_RELEASE_VER)

Then preprocess this file and filter junk out:

gcc -E -P ver.h | sed '/^[ \t]*$/d; s/[ \t\"]//g'

 Here you get the version suffix string, like "0.1.3"

[MPast.1]

hi @Pavel A. ,

I create "version.c"

I inserted these in pre-build:

And I obtain an error:

But I'm in trouble with the compiler in use:

 trying to put on post-build command

I get this error:

[MPast.1]

Hi @Pavel A. ,

 maybe I have done a little bit of confusion.

After reading for 100  times your original message, maybe I understood the right steps to do :

right click on "version.c" -> proprieties -->settings --> build Steps..

In this way everything is compiling without any error, but Output file has still the project name.