Copyright (c) Digital Equipment Corporation 1990, 1991. All rights reserved
LAYERED PRODUCT:  VAX PLI V3.4           OP/SYS:  VMS, V5.4-V5.4-2

SOURCE:     Digital Customer Support Center



OVERVIEW:

This article demonstates how to give an executable a version number
that can be determined with the ANALYZE/IMAGE command.


PROCEDURE:

First, generate a linker options file called OPTFILE.OPT that contains
the following line:

IDENTIFICATION="1.0"

(1.0 is the version number that is desired for the executable)

Second, compile a program and link the .OBJ produced from the
compilation  with the linker options file:

$create MYPROG.PLI

sstartit: proc options(main);
dcl i fixed bin(31);
dcl x char(4) init('abcd');

  i = length(x);
  put skip list (' The length of the string X is ', i);
end sstartit;

$PLI MYPROG.PLI

$LINK MYPROG,OPTFILE/OPT

Now, issue the following command to see that the version was set.

$analyze/image myprog.exe

Under the IMAGE FILE IDENTIFICATION field in the output, you should
see the  version that was placed in the linker options file.

       Image Identification Information

             image name: "MYPROG"
             image file identification: "1.0"   <========version number
             link date/time: 27-DEC-1989 08:11:41.03
             linker identification: "05-05"

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