Pyinstaller - update version during CI build / automatic update of version file

README.md

python CI/updateVersion.py %NEW_VERSION%
pyinstaller testApp.py --version-file "CI/version.py"

updateVersion.py

import sys
import re

FILE_WITH_VERSION_INFORMATIONS = "CI\\version"

if len(sys.argv) != 2:
    print("""Problem with argument.\n
             Expected exactly one argument with new version number - e.g. '1.23.0.0'""")
    exit(1)

new_version = sys.argv[1]

if re.match(r"[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+", new_version) == None:
    print("Wrong format of argument:", new_version,
          "\nRequired format: 1.23.0.0")
    exit(1)

new_version_commas = new_version.replace('.', ', ')

# Read data from template file
fin = open(FILE_WITH_VERSION_INFORMATIONS + "_template.py", "rt")
data = fin.read()
data = data.replace('filevers=(78, 0, 3904, 108)',
                    'filevers=(' + new_version_commas + ')')
data = data.replace('prodvers=(78, 0, 3904, 108)',
                    'prodvers=(' + new_version_commas + ')')
data = data.replace("u'FileVersion', u'78, 0, 3904, 108'",
                    "u'FileVersion', u'" + new_version + "'")
data = data.replace("u'ProductVersion', u'78, 0, 3904, 108'",
                    "u'ProductVersion', u'" + new_version + "'")
fin.close()

# Write the data to new output file
fin = open(FILE_WITH_VERSION_INFORMATIONS + ".py", "wt")
fin.write(data)
fin.close()

print(sys.argv[0], "- version updated to:", new_version)

version_template.py

# Version info from Google Chrome
# Get this info with util `pyi-grab_version`

# UTF-8
#
# For more details about fixed file info 'ffi' see:
# http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms646997.aspx
VSVersionInfo(
  ffi=FixedFileInfo(
    # filevers and prodvers should be always a tuple with four items: (1, 2, 3, 4)
    # Set not needed items to zero 0.
    filevers=(78, 0, 3904, 108),
    prodvers=(78, 0, 3904, 108),
    # Contains a bitmask that specifies the valid bits 'flags'r
    mask=0x17,
    # Contains a bitmask that specifies the Boolean attributes of the file.
    flags=0x0,
    # The operating system for which this file was designed.
    # 0x4 - NT and there is no need to change it.
    OS=0x4,
    # The general type of file.
    # 0x1 - the file is an application.
    fileType=0x1,
    # The function of the file.
    # 0x0 - the function is not defined for this fileType
    subtype=0x0,
    # Creation date and time stamp.
    date=(0, 0)
    ),
  kids=[
    StringFileInfo(
      [
      StringTable(
        u'040904b0',
        [StringStruct(u'CompanyName', u'Google LLC'),
        StringStruct(u'FileDescription', u'Google Chrome'),
        StringStruct(u'FileVersion', u'78, 0, 3904, 108'),
        StringStruct(u'InternalName', u'chrome_exe'),
        StringStruct(u'LegalCopyright', u'Copyright 2019 Google LLC. All rights reserved.'),
        StringStruct(u'OriginalFilename', u'chrome.exe'),
        StringStruct(u'ProductName', u'Google Chrome'),
        StringStruct(u'ProductVersion', u'78.0.3904.108'),
        StringStruct(u'CompanyShortName', u'Google'),
        StringStruct(u'ProductShortName', u'Chrome'),
        StringStruct(u'LastChange', u'4b26898a39ee037623a72fcfb77279fce0e7d648-refs/branch-heads/3904@{#889}'),
        StringStruct(u'Official Build', u'1')])
      ]), 
    VarFileInfo([VarStruct(u'Translation', [1033, 1200])])
  ]
)

Hi Jarek

I guess i'm not using a special structure (don't really know in fact)

Here is what I have tested tonight.

So i guess you should put the git hash in the ProducVersion and it will work with a simple string.

The filevers seems to be a special format and maybe you cannot add the format you want but only "X,X,X,X" format

I personnaly dont care about the windows detail but I use it inside my program as follow (copy screen of mu prog) :

If u want to use thoses informations in your code you can do like this.

import win32api
def getFileProperties(fname):
    """
    Read all properties of the given file return them as a dictionary.
    """
    propNames = ('Comments', 'InternalName', 'ProductName',
             'CompanyName', 'LegalCopyright', 'ProductVersion',
             'FileDescription', 'LegalTrademarks', 'PrivateBuild',
             'FileVersion', 'OriginalFilename', 'SpecialBuild')

    props = {'StringFileInfo': None}

    strInfo = {}
    try:
        for propName in propNames:
            # The "040904B0" must match the information you have in your version file. Dont know how to get it dynamic
            strInfoPath = u'\\StringFileInfo\\040904B0\\'
            strInfo[propName] = win32api.GetFileVersionInfo(fname, strInfoPath+propName)

        props['StringFileInfo'] = strInfo
    except:
        props=False
    return props


........................

        properties_detail = getFileProperties("./Prog.exe")
        if properties_detail:
            product_name_text = properties_detail['StringFileInfo']['ProductName']
            product_version_text = properties_detail['StringFileInfo']['ProductVersion']
            product_desc_text = properties_detail['StringFileInfo']['FileDescription']
            product_file_version_text = properties_detail['StringFileInfo']['FileVersion']
            product_support_text = "[email protected]"

I'm begining in python so i guess there are better way to do it but it works for me.

I also made some modification in your process.

I'am calling the updateVersion.py in my spec file so when i want to build my program i write the command line like this.

pyinstaller Prog.spec 1.1.0.2

So i just need one line to build and set my version.

Thanks for this code. I made a simpler version since I am only using it for argparse --version command.

At the top of the spec file:

# update the version with the latest git commit
import subprocess
git_commit = subprocess.check_output(['git', 'rev-parse', '--short', 'HEAD'], text=True)
new_version = '1.0-' + git_commit.strip()
print('Building with new version number', new_version)
with open('_version.py', 'w') as f:
    f.write('version = "' + new_version + '"')

And this at the end to reset so that git doesn't notice changes every time

with open('_version.py', 'w') as f:
    f.write("# placeholder will be overwritten by PyInstaller\nversion = ''")

@Lagdu, can u share a sample . I am trying to achieve the same