[erlang-questions] determining what erts version a .beam was compiled with

[Kenneth Lundin]

Hi,

The interesting version info is the compiler version and that is what
you get in the example below.

You can also get the same info by loading the module and
calling M:module_info().

/Kenneth Erlang/OTP team Ericsson

On 1/23/08, Bengt Kleberg <bengt.kleberg@REDACTED> wrote:
> beam_lib:chunks/2 works for me:
>
> 3> ls().
> be_lib.beam
> ok
> 4> beam_lib:chunks( "be_lib.beam", [compile_info]).
> {ok,{be_lib,
>         [{compile_info,
>              [{options,
>                   [{cwd,"/home/dev_patches"},
>                    {outdir,"/home/dev_patches"}]},
>               {version,"4.3.7"},
>               {time,{2005,8,22,15,2,36}},
>               {source,"/home/dev_patches/be_lib.erl"}]}]}}
> 5>
>
>
> bengt
> Those were the days...
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>
>
> On 01/23/08 00:18, Lennart Öhman wrote:
> > I believe there is a version attribute in the module_info tag 'compile'
> > telling at least the version of the compiler application used. I guess
> > this is actually more accurate since it must be for which beam object
> > code has been generated that is of interest. Not necessarily which
> > runtime system was used when compiling.
> > But I further guess that you must inspect this information using some
> > beam_lib function, because otherwise you must call the module_info
> > function and that means you have to load the module. But if it is
> > incompatible (younger than) to your runtime system at hand, that can
> > be difficult.
> >
> > Best Regards
> > Lennart
> >
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> > From: erlang-questions-bounces@REDACTED [mailto:erlang-questions-bounces@REDACTED] On Behalf Of Logan, Martin
> > Sent: den 22 januari 2008 19:05
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> > Subject: [erlang-questions] determining what erts version a .beam was compiled with
> >
> > Does anyone know whether it is possible to tell by inspecting some .beam object code what erts vsn it was compiled on?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Martin
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