Re: -DVERSION for emacsclient

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:27:44 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> We could require Sed for the Windows build, and then do the above
> (just replace single quotes with double quotes and escape-protect the
> inner double quotes).  Or we could craft an equivalent command using
> native Windows tools.

There's one other option: write a short C program that will run during
the build and extract the version string from version.el, and supply
that program as part of the Emacs distribution (in the nt/
subdirectory).

On balance, I think this is the best alternative.