topic Re: Build Date Time for Version Control in CodeWarrior for MCU

Build Date Time for Version Control

yanam — Fri, 31 May 2013 10:46:21 GMT

Hi All

I am using CodeWarrior 10.4 for Kinetis. I would like to timestamp my builds with date-time at the build and use this string constant to print at the time of startup of the firmware. Does anyone have the idea of how it can be done in Eclipse/Codewarrior?

Regards,

Yogendra

Re: Build Date Time for Version Control

Teckna — Fri, 31 May 2013 16:19:50 GMT

Hi Yogendra,

Maybe the macro you are searching for is: __DATE__

Check the online help

Teckna

Re: Build Date Time for Version Control

BlackNight — Fri, 31 May 2013 16:36:16 GMT

ANSI-C provides two macros:

__DATE__

__TIME__

which can be used for this. They get replaced by the compiler with the actual data and time.

I'm using this in my own firmware like this:

byte CLS1_PrintStatus(CLS1_ConstStdIOType *io)

{

CLS1_SendStr((unsigned char*)"\r\n", io->stdOut);

CLS1_SendStr((unsigned char*)CLS1_DASH_LINE, io->stdOut);

CLS1_SendStr((unsigned char*)"\r\nSYSTEM STATUS\r\n", io->stdOut);

CLS1_SendStr((unsigned char*)CLS1_DASH_LINE, io->stdOut);

CLS1_SendStr((unsigned char*)"\r\n", io->stdOut);

CLS1_SendStatusStr((const unsigned char*)"Firmware", (const unsigned char*)__DATE__, io->stdOut);

CLS1_SendStr((unsigned char*)" ", io->stdOut);

CLS1_SendStr((unsigned char*)__TIME__, io->stdOut);

CLS1_SendStr((unsigned char*)"\r\n", io->stdOut);

return ERR_OK;

}

You can see an example output of this in this blog post (last screenshot):

A Shell for the Freedom KL25Z Board

I hope this helps.