Command line tool version in crash report

I wrote a C++ command-line tool by using XCode.

My tool crashes sometimes, with a crash report being generated.

How can I include Version of my command-line tool in crash report?

Now the Version is always 0.

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You may be able to get the version number populated by adding an 

Info.plist
to your command-line tool. See the Create Info.plist Section in Binary ( 
CREATE_INFOPLIST_SECTION_IN_BINARY
) build setting.

This above is a good idea in general, but it’s not how I’d solve this particular problem. Rather, you should keep a table that maps between your version numbers and the main executable’s Mach-O UUID. That UUID is included in the crash report, so you can just look up the version from there.

This has a couple of benefits:

  • The UUID identifies a specific build, whereas the version number tends to get tangled up with marketing concerns.

  • The UUID also ties the executable to its 

    .dSYM
    file.

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You may be able to get the version number populated by adding an 

Info.plist
to your command-line tool. See the Create Info.plist Section in Binary ( 
CREATE_INFOPLIST_SECTION_IN_BINARY
) build setting.

This above is a good idea in general, but it’s not how I’d solve this particular problem. Rather, you should keep a table that maps between your version numbers and the main executable’s Mach-O UUID. That UUID is included in the crash report, so you can just look up the version from there.

This has a couple of benefits:

  • The UUID identifies a specific build, whereas the version number tends to get tangled up with marketing concerns.

  • The UUID also ties the executable to its 

    .dSYM
    file.

Share and Enjoy
—
Quinn “The Eskimo!”
Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware 

let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@apple.com"
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Thank You very much 🙂

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