Thread Subject: mhow to get the date of compilation of standalones automatically?

Hi,

As I distribute standalones it would be nice to have an
internal control of the date of compilation.

So I just tried to use mfilename('fullpath') in order to get
the location of the *.exe and then I wanted to get its date
with the dir command.

But in 2008a the exe file is expanded in a directory which
is not necesarrily a subdirectory of the exe file path.

As mfilename gives back the path in which the file was
expanded the date of this file only contains the date of
first execution on this machine and not the date when the
file was compiled.

Any idea how to get the compilation date of a file
automatically in 2008a ?

thank you very much for every idea

kinor

in mkproj.m

fid = fopen('builddate.m','w');
    fprintf(fid, 'function s = builddate\n');
    fprintf(fid, 's=''%s'';\n',date);
    fclose(fid);
    
    mcc -F 'C:\home\proj\dvb-sh\ofdm_sim_src\DVB.prj'

in my project:

if isdeployed,
    fprintf('>>> Build date: %s <<<\n', builddate);
end



"nor ki" <kinor.removeme@gmx.de> wrote in message <fv429i$il1$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Hi,
>
> As I distribute standalones it would be nice to have an
> internal control of the date of compilation.
>
> So I just tried to use mfilename('fullpath') in order to get
> the location of the *.exe and then I wanted to get its date
> with the dir command.
>
> But in 2008a the exe file is expanded in a directory which
> is not necesarrily a subdirectory of the exe file path.
>
> As mfilename gives back the path in which the file was
> expanded the date of this file only contains the date of
> first execution on this machine and not the date when the
> file was compiled.
>
> Any idea how to get the compilation date of a file
> automatically in 2008a ?
>
> thank you very much for every idea
>
> kinor