Thanks for the code.
It's what I meant with "converting those into a timestamp at runtime isn't
ideal" though.
Having the explicit __DATE__ in the binary as string makes it a little bit
too easy to change.
I would like to use it for expiring beta releases.
cheers,
Torsten
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 3:00 PM, David Durkee <da...@dwdurkee.com> wrote:
> I’m not concerned with the time, but I get the build date as an NSDate
> with this method:
>
> - (NSDate*) buildDate
> {
> NSString* dateStr = [NSString stringWithUTF8String: __DATE__];
> NSDateFormatter* dater = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
> NSLocale *enUSPOSIXLocale = [[NSLocale alloc]
> initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US_POSIX"];
>
> [dater setLocale:enUSPOSIXLocale];
> [dater setDateFormat:@"MMM dd yyyy"];
> NSDate* date = [dater dateFromString: dateStr];
> return date;
> }
>
> David
>
> > On Apr 29, 2015, at 6:39 AM, Torsten Curdt <tcu...@vafer.org> wrote:
> >
> > I would like to embed the timestamp of the build into my executable.
> >
> > I know there is __DATE__ and __TIME__ but converting those into a
> timestamp
> > at runtime isn't ideal.
> >
> > So I guess I somehow need to make the output of date +%s available to the
> > preprocessor. But user defines allow only static values aren't they?
> >
> > I am not aware that a run script phase can export anything but files.
> >
> > How would you do this?
> >
> > Hope this is not too OT as this is more Xcode/build tools related.
> > Happy to ask elsewhere if it is.
> >
> > cheers,
> > Torsten
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