PluginVersion compilation error

[asaxena]

Hi,

I have the following PluginVersion in my plugin .fr file

// Plugin version definition.
resource PluginVersion (kSDKDefPluginVersionResourceID)
{
kTargetVersion,
kMyPluginID,
kSDKDefPlugInMajorVersionNumber, kSDKDefPlugInMinorVersionNumber,
kSDKDefHostMajorVersionNumber, kSDKDefHostMinorVersionNumber,
kMyCurrentMajorFormatNumber, kMyCurrentMinorFormatNumber,
{ kInDesignProduct, kInCopyProduct },
{ kWildFS },
#if CSVER >= 55
kUIPlugIn,
#endif
kMyVersion
};

I tried building this with kMyVersion as 0.pre-release.0

This gave me an error like so by odfrc: R6: # Error: looked like a number but it wasnt

I suspect this is due to some grammar that this field must support, but I can't locate it. Any help is appreicated where I can understand more about the error thrown by odfrc

[BarlaeDC]

Hi,

I found this in the sample but it doesn't appear to say what you have is invalid.

/*
// Version Number String macro:
// Used to create a string for the PluginVersion resource.
// This is provideded only as a convenience. The PluginVersion field after the FeatureSet array
// can contain any string, but has a default, SDK samples will contain a string
// made up of the major.minor.step.build  numbers. e.g. "3.0.0.385"
*/
#define SDK_DEF_MAKE_VERSIONSTRING(ver_maj, ver_min, ver_step, ver_build) SDK_DEF_STRINGIZE(ver_maj)"." SDK_DEF_STRINGIZE(ver_min)"." SDK_DEF_STRINGIZE(ver_step)"." SDK_DEF_STRINGIZE(ver_build)

/*
// Plug-in version string used in About box. In the debug build, we append 'D' at the end of the version string.
*/
#ifdef DEBUG
#define kSDKDefPluginVersionString SDK_DEF_MAKE_VERSIONSTRING(kSDKDefPlugInMajorVersionNumberForResource, kSDKDefPlugInMinorVersionNumberForResource, kSDKDefPlugInStepVersionNumberForResource, kBuildNumber)"D"
#else
#define kSDKDefPluginVersionString SDK_DEF_MAKE_VERSIONSTRING(kSDKDefPlugInMajorVersionNumberForResource, kSDKDefPlugInMinorVersionNumberForResource, kSDKDefPlugInStepVersionNumberForResource, kBuildNumber) 
#endif

Probably not much help, will continue to investigate, are you able to change a the value and have it compile?

Regards

Malcolm

[Manan Joshi · Accepted solution]

I used the string literally in the fr file in one of my plugins, and it worked. Try the following and check

resource PluginVersion (kSDKDefPluginVersionResourceID)
{
kTargetVersion,
kMyPluginID,
kSDKDefPlugInMajorVersionNumber, kSDKDefPlugInMinorVersionNumber,
kSDKDefHostMajorVersionNumber, kSDKDefHostMinorVersionNumber,
kMyCurrentMajorFormatNumber, kMyCurrentMinorFormatNumber,
{ kInDesignProduct, kInCopyProduct },
{ kWildFS },
#if CSVER >= 55
kUIPlugIn,
#endif
"0.pre-release.0"
};

I suspect your issue is somewhere in the expansion of the macros if the above works

-Manan

[asaxena]

I agree. In my .fr file I have a .h include that has some of the #defines which seemed to be the problem. Anyways, we changed our versioning criteria, so this no longer bothers me now.

Thanks for help