When working on embedded HW it is always easy to loose track of what exactly is running. A common trick is to include the SVN rev number, timestamp or some other counter.

Right now the system seems to track the build number. Is this exposed; so we can do something like

printf("Started (Build #" __BUILD_NO__ " - compiled " __DATE__ "\r\n");

Thanks,

Dw.

Another vote for this. It would be very handy to be able to check the build number!

Hi Dirk, Ian,

We don't support this, but we could do something like it. Would a timestamp be acceptable for you (e.g. a UNIX timestamp)?

Cheers,

Simon

Its workable.

i'd like to be able to printf it so that i can identify a 'build number' in the final system.

You can already printf the TIME macro (or variable?):

    printf("******** [%s] *********\n",__TIME__);

Excellent point Hendrik,

See more: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.dui0041c/Babbacdb.html

We will still look at including our own data in the build in the future.

Dan

Any actions or updates related to this ??

@Mika,

there're 2 macros, one is MBED_BUILD_TIMESTAMP and revision macro MBED_LIBRARY_VERSION.

Regards,
0xc0170

Did not work as I tried it in this way: Software static char swversion[31] = "MBED_BUILD_TIMESTAMP ";

Any example available ?

Solved: add this into the main() sprintf(swversion,"Build: %f", MBED_BUILD_TIMESTAMP); TODO format more readable year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds

Quick format: time_t temp; struct tm *timeptr; temp = MBED_BUILD_TIMESTAMP; timeptr = localtime(&temp); strftime(swversion,sizeof(swversion),"Build %A-%b-%d %r", timeptr);