Lol.. yup, I know, I'm opening a case with Sybase on it. Will let you know what I find.

This is what I asked in the case:

basically I'm looking for something like so:

$ my_app --openclient-version
----
This application is using OpenClient 12.5.1 ebf 9999 for Linux 64bit. This application was BUILT using OpenClient 12.5.1 ebf 9980.
---

The "built" line would be hard coded by the application during the compilation process - I would handle this...

The "using" would be read from some method in the openclient library (ctlib or dblib) that my application is using *now*.

I'm looking for a way to determine the "using" openclient version without performing a system call to run the ldd or strings commands.

A little more than what we are looking for but, I think it would be a better solution

Jason L. Froebe

No one has seen what you have seen, and until that happens, we're all going to think that you're nuts. - Jack O'Neil, Stargate SG-1

Edit by tye, remove PRE tags around long lines

In reply to Re^3: Portable way to extract string from a binary by jfroebe
in thread Portable way to extract string from a binary by mpeppler

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