title: Doxygen: Outputting Version Numbers
body: <p>I would like to have Doxygen display the source code version number as part of the main page or the title header.  </p>
  
  <p>Presently, our code has the version defined as a text literal:  </p>
  
  <pre><code>/*!
   *  \brief  Text literal containing the build number portion of the
   *              ESG Application Version.
   */
  static const char   build_version_text[] = "105";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have searched the internet for a method to get the 105 from the above statement into the Doxygen main page (or header) with no luck.</p>
  
  <p><em>Background</em><br>
  We have a build server that updates the text string as part of a nightly build operation.  The file is updated, then checked into the Software Configuration Management system.  The build server is also capable of generating the documentation.  We would also like to have the developers be able to check out the code, the build the Doxygen documentation at their workstations.  </p>
  
  <p>We are using Doxygen version 1.8.11.  </p>