Re: How to detect that a Windows DLL has a version resource, and pull data from it.

Have a look at Win32::Exe

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Re^2: How to detect that a Windows DLL has a version resource, and pull data from it. by CSJewell (Beadle) on Jul 03, 2009 at 17:25 UTC
I did that. Got even more lost than I already was just looking at the documentation. Was hoping for other options short of writing the binary-parsing routine myself. Although I may have to look again. It was too early in the morning.	[reply]
Re^2: How to detect that a Windows DLL has a version resource, and pull data from it. by CSJewell (Beadle) on Jul 05, 2009 at 04:43 UTC
The trick was getting the language code once I got the Win32::Exe object - and it isn't exactly the cleanest code in the world. I had to poke into the object to get it, because there isn't a documented interface for it. `my $language; my $exe = Win32::Exe->new( $name[$object_id] ); my $vi = $exe->version_info(); if (defined $vi) { # To load the variable used below. $vi->get('OriginalFilename'); $language = hex substr $vi->{'cur_trans'}, 0, 4; # $language is now the language IN DECIMAL. # To get a hex number, drop the 'hex' before the substr. } # use $language if it's defined. ...` [download]	[reply] [d/l]