version is now added automatically by the CI (#4)

* version is now added automatically by the CI

* use go 16 as requested by go.mod

Author: umbynos

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -143,10 +143,10 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install Go
       uses: actions/setup-go@v2
       with:
-          go-version: "1.15.8"
+          go-version: "1.16.2"
 
     - name: Build rp2040load
-      run: go build
+      run: go build -ldflags '-X main.version=${GITHUB_REF##*/}'
       env:
         GOOS: ${{ matrix.config.os }}
         GOARCH: ${{ matrix.config.arch }}

main.go

@@ -15,10 +15,9 @@ import (
 var (
 	verbose = flag.Bool("v", false, "Show verbose logging")
 	binary  = flag.String("D", "", "Path of the elf file to load")
+	version = "0.0.0-dev" // CI will take care of it
 )
 
-const Version = "1.0.1"
-
 func PrintlnVerbose(a ...interface{}) {
 	if *verbose {
 		fmt.Println(a...)
@@ -36,7 +35,7 @@ func main() {
 	path, _ := filepath.Abs(filepath.Dir(os.Args[0]))
 	flag.Parse()
 
-	PrintlnVerbose(name + " " + Version + " - compiled with " + runtime.Version())
+	PrintlnVerbose(name + " " + version + " - compiled with " + runtime.Version())
 
 	convert := []string{filepath.Join(path, "elf2uf2"), *binary, *binary + ".uf2"}
 	launchCommandAndWaitForOutput(convert, false, false)