made more binary friendly

added version to main.go and a version file that can be bumped
added a makefile for consistency
removed the binaries directory

VERSION

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0.1.0

main.go

@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ const (
 )
 
 var (
+	binaryVersion, binaryBuild string
+
+	flgVersion = flag.Bool("version", false, "The binary version information")
 	flgSvrPort = flag.String("p", "2975", "The port that is used for the copy-paste socket")
 	flgVerbose = flag.Bool("v", false, "Verbose, print out all of the logging.")
 )
@@ -93,6 +96,15 @@ func printDot(stop, cont chan struct{}) {
 	}
 }
 
+func ver(show bool) {
+	if !show {
+		return
+	}
+
+	fmt.Printf("version: %s build: %s - MIT (c) 2017 by Nika Jones - with <3\n", binaryVersion, binaryBuild)
+	os.Exit(0)
+}
+
 // multicastServer forwards data from the client to all other connected clients
 func multicastServer(svrName, svrPort string) {
 	log.Println("Starting the multicast server...")
@@ -329,6 +341,8 @@ func socketHandler(ws *websocket.Conn) {
 func main() {
 	flag.Parse()
 
+	ver(*flgVersion)
+
 	if !*flgVerbose {
 		log.SetOutput(ioutil.Discard)
 	}

makefile

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+SHELL := /bin/bash
+BUILD_DATE = `date -u +"%a,|%d|%b|%Y|%T|%Z" | tr '|' ' '`
+BUILD_VERSION = `cat VERSION`
+
+default: mac
+
+mac:
+	GOARCH=amd64 GOOS=darwin go build -o bin/osx/xcp  -ldflags "-X \"main.binaryBuild=$(BUILD_DATE)\" -X main.binaryVersion=$(BUILD_VERSION)"
+
+win:
+	GOARCH=amd64 GOOS=windows go build -o bin/win/xcp.exe -ldflags "-X \"main.binaryBuild=$(BUILD_DATE)\" -X \"main.binaryVersion=$(BUILD_VERSION)\""
+
+lin:
+	GOARCH=amd64 GOOS=linux go build -o bin/lin/xcp -ldflags "-X \"main.binaryBuild=$(BUILD_DATE)\" -X \"main.binaryVersion=$(BUILD_VERSION)\""
+
+release:
+	tar -czvf xcp-${BUILD_VERSION}-lin.tar.gz -C bin/lin/ xcp
+	tar -czvf xcp-${BUILD_VERSION}-macos.tar.gz -C bin/osx xcp
+	tar -czvf xcp-${BUILD_VERSION}-win.tar.gz -C bin/win xcp.exe
+	mkdir -p releases/${BUILD_VERSION} && mv *.tar.gz releases/${BUILD_VERSION}/.
+
+all: mac win lin