Not able to build cross-platform netplay build

[aj12ay]

Hi Dolphin devs!

I made a modification of dolphin that allows libmelee to work (well, more like took altf4's modification and rebased it to the current ver of dolphin).  Here it is!

https://github.com/stephenjayakar/dolphin/

I'm not able to build it properly for both platforms.  While I have a working binary on both mac and windows, they are not able to connect via netplay.  I suspect this has something to do with the implicit versioning of the builds.  The mac build says its version 5.0-6031, whereas the windows build says its version [].  Does anyone know how to fix the version number?  It's the exact same code, so it should be the same version number? 

[JosJuice]

That's weird, the Windows build should either get a correct version number or give you a build error about git not being found...

If you open the terminal in the folder where the git repo is stored, what happens when you run git describe? (The regular cmd prompt or PowerShell, not any Git Bash install you might have)

[aj12ay]

Ok, I got it to work.  While my Git was working, I didn't download dolphin by cloning it (i downloaded the zip from my repo); therefore, the builder couldn't figure out the version of dolphin because it uses commit history.  

[Helios]

yeah, avoid doing that in general imo. lots of projects have scripts that rely on git being initialized