This may be the final commit for v1.0.0.
Can @thebusytypist and @pah review of it?

Coverage remained the same at 100.0% when pulling 5ab1e93 on issue310_versionmacro into 8d39282 on master.

Coverage remained the same at 100.0% when pulling 95c6ec9 on issue310_versionmacro into 8d39282 on master.

It is possible to generate version header automatically using CMake.

• make additional file called "version.h.in"and put all your version-related stuff there, but using CMake variables in several places:

  #define RAPIDJSON_MAJOR_VERSION @LIB_MAJOR_VERSION@
  
  #define RAPIDJSON_MINOR_VERSION @LIB_MINOR_VERSION@
  
  #define RAPIDJSON_PATCH_VERSION @LIB_PATCH_VERSION@

• add something like this to your CMakeLists.txt:

  configure_file(version.h.in version.h @ONLY)
  
  include_directories(${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
  
  install(FILES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/version.h DESTINATION ${INCLUDE_INSTALL_DIR})

• include version.h in rapidjson.h

This approach has some cons though: there's no version.h file before you run cmake at least once.

Yes. I have thought of this solution but I don't want cmake compulsory for using the library. Can it do another way round? Parse/match the header to cmake? Besides I do not know how those variables in cmake are used in the build process.

Just wanted to add that it is a very useful feature to be able to use RapidJSON as a header-only library, without needing to compile anything. So, I agree with @miloyip that a build tool should not be required.

Those variables were just a stub for you to use. Although I tend to have version defined in the build tool, there are possibilities to get version from other sources. One useful option is to use git-describe to get version and parse its output. This version will change with every commit and would be a normal x.x.x only for a tagged commit though. Sure, we can get version from header files like this:

• generate C file that writes version into output and exits
• run it
• read its outout

I thought about parsing header files directly and it seems it is doable with some more additional effort.

@jollyroger git-describe seems not a good idea because the user may get a source package without git information. I don't know if we can use regex to extract the numbers in rapidjson.h in CMAKE. But anyway, this is not hurry we can improve and make it more automatically later. Now we can just simply manually set both files.

@pah Thanks for macro simplification advice. However I try to use the same variable names as those in CMAKE for consistency.