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diff --git a/Help/prop_tgt/VERSION.rst b/Help/prop_tgt/VERSION.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..87f6c49 --- /dev/null +++ b/Help/prop_tgt/VERSION.rst @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +VERSION +------- + +What version number is this target. + +For shared libraries VERSION and SOVERSION can be used to specify the +build version and API version respectively. When building or +installing appropriate symlinks are created if the platform supports +symlinks and the linker supports so-names. If only one of both is +specified the missing is assumed to have the same version number. For +executables VERSION can be used to specify the build version. When +building or installing appropriate symlinks are created if the +platform supports symlinks. For shared libraries and executables on +Windows the VERSION attribute is parsed to extract a "major.minor" +version number. These numbers are used as the image version of the +binary. |