compile this Ruby script into a standalone executable (since not all developers have Ruby installed).

combine all our calls into a single (Ruby) script PreBuild.rb.

We ended up using a workaround similar to what was proposed by David Heffernan:

choose target 'All configurations - all platforms'īuild Events -> Pre-build events, enter this (two lines, sorry for the formatting):.

File -> Save all, keep suggested names Unit1.pas / Project1.dpr.File -> New -> VCL forms application (Delphi).UPDATE: Steps to easily reproduce this bug This works, but only until we edit the project options again - Delphi XE3 always messes up the pre-build event :-(ĭoes anybody know a solution/workaround for this? I guess we could write a simple command line tool that calls SubWCRev and brcc32, but I'd prefer a simpler solution. we use two ampersands to execute the second command if the first one succeeds. Our current workaround is to manually change this to SubWCRev '' '' VersionInfo.rc & brcc32 -foProject.res VersionInfo.rc

(note that this is a single line, both commands separated by a single ampersand). This worked perfectly in previous Delphi versions, but whenever we open the project options in XE3, XE3 converts this to: SubWCRev '' '' VersionInfo.rc &brcc32 -foProject.res VersionInfo.rc we first extract the current SVN version from the working copy, write this information to VersionInfo.rc and then use the Borland resource compiler to generate a resource file. (note that these two commands appear on separate lines and contain the absolute paths in our 'real' commands) Our pre-build events look like this: SubWCRev '' '' VersionInfo.rc We are currently in the process of switching from Delphi XE to Delphi XE3, and we are having serious problems with our pre-build-events.

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