Arafath, that's kind of what I did (except I replaced the git command with
my setversion.exe). It worked as expected... thank you!
On Friday, January 27, 2017 at 12:43:01 AM UTC-6, Arafath M wrote:
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> Under Windows, create a bat file with following contents. It uses latest
> tag from git repo as version.
>
> echo Rebuilding App...
> for /f %%i in ('git describe --tags ') do set version=%%i
> go install -a -v -ldflags "-X main.versionBuild=%version%"
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Arafath M
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Eric Brown <edb...@gmail.com
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Got it to work as intended under Linux; however, compiling on Windows is
>> a no-go. Perhaps I have to create a script, pass the output to a variable,
>> and insert the variable into the build command? Hopefully not, so if
>> anybody has any suggestions... it would be highly appreciated. Thanks!
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, January 26, 2017 at 9:58:49 PM UTC-6, Eric Brown wrote:
>>>
>>> Using -ldflags -X, is there a way to set the internal value as the
>>> output of an executable console file?
>>>
>>> I've seen examples like this:
>>>
>>> "-X main.githash=`git rev-parse HEAD`" (which would put the result of the
>>> git command w/ flags into it)
>>>
>>>
>>> however, I just can't get it to work (if it's even possible).
>>>
>>> The file I use is called setVersion.exe and does all the formatting,
>>> etc. for me (which includes connecting to a ntp atomic time server for the
>>> time stamp, etc.).
>>>
>>> What I'm using is (setVersion being included in the PATH environment):
>>>
>>> go build -ldflags "-X 'main.versionBuild=setVersion'"
>>>
>>> I've tried putting the quotations in different places, etc. Nothing I
>>> try is working.
>>>
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