Update values in visual c++ resourcefile automatically

Question

In my Visual C++ 6.0 project I have some values in the MyProject.rc file, like

BEGIN
    BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
    BEGIN
        BLOCK "040604b0"
        BEGIN
            VALUE "Comments", "My Project comment\0"
            VALUE "CompanyName", "My Company\0"
            VALUE "ProductVersion", "9, 9, 1, 9\0"
            VALUE "SpecialBuild", "Release Version\0"
        END
    END
END

In light of wasting some time in debugging and error-finding, I want the compiler to update any value in the resource-file of my project, by inserting the value of the version of another .dll library, used by MyProject. I want to use this feature, so I can see what version of a second library MyProject is using. Is there any way I can insert the value of the version of another library at compiletime, in MyProject.rc?

Thanks.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 28 '13 at 09:30

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You may write a simple program which takes the dll version and edits the rc file, which can be called as pre-build-step.

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