Re: [mpg123-devel] Xcode OS X and Xcode iOS projects

[Charles V. W. <cva...@ad...>]

No objection from me, we're all on VS 2010.

Might I suggest including a resource .rc file such that there's version
information in the .dll

I currently add a libmpg123.rc (originally generated by VS 2010, and hand
modified)

Here are the values I've used:

	VALUE "FileDescription", "MPEG Audio Layers 1/2/3 Decoder"
	VALUE "FileVersion", "1.13.4.0"
	VALUE "InternalName", "libmpg123.dll"
	VALUE "LegalCopyright", "Copyright (c) 1994-2011, Licensed LGPL"	// I
tried to find what the earliest date was an came up with 1994
	VALUE "OriginalFilename", "libmpg123.dll"
	VALUE "ProductName", "libmpg123"
	VALUE "ProductVersion", "1.13.4.0"

Ideally, the version number and copyright would be automatically generated
from one of the configuration header files. I thought about including a
simple batch file to pull out the appropriate strings from the
configuration, and build a version.h file (which would #DEFINE the
strings) that the resource .rc file would include.

Why care so much about this metadata?  Because this information is used in
the Windows Error Reporter for bucketizing crash reports. It conforms with
the Windows Platform Compatibility guidelines (which my software has to
follow), and in a paper I just read regarding a machine-learning approach
to finding malware, executables and libraries that didn't have this info
filled out ranked high as a differentiator of malware.

-Charles

On 3/6/12 1:52 AM, "Patrick Dehne" <pa...@my...> wrote:

>On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Thomas Orgis <tho...@or...>
>wrote:
>> Am Fri, 2 Mar 2012 17:02:52 +0100
>> schrieb Patrick Dehne <pa...@my...>:
>>
>>> I must have missed that. Xcode projects would be very useful. Feel
>>>free to send the files to me. I can give them a test run.
>>
>> While we're at that: Could it be that we should get rid of older MSVC
>>version project files (perhaps for 1.15, since one should not take away
>>stuff from a beta release)? I'm quite sure they don't work anymore.
>
>I am in the process of adding Visual Studio 2011 project files. I
>would think it is safe to get rid of the Visual Studio 2005 project
>files. If no one objects we could even remove the VS 2008 project
>files. Time moves on...
>
>Patrick
>
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