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Posted on 2008-07-25 21:13:29-07 by heiko
Version information in Windows EXE
Hello, if've noticed that the version information in the exiftool.exe for Windows is missing. Is it possible to implement this information? ExifTool itself is used from several other programs, and it seams, that some installations always copying files which have no version information. Regards Heiko
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Posted on 2008-07-26 13:57:03-07 by exiftool in response to 8409
Re: Version information in Windows EXE
You should be able to get the exiftool version number using either the -ver option, or through the ExifToolVersion tag when you extract information from a file. This should work for all exiftool distributions.

Is this what you are talking about?

- Phil
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Posted on 2008-07-26 21:35:57-07 by heiko in response to 8413
Re: Version information in Windows EXE
Hello Phil, I know how to get the version number of ExifTool, but the problem is that most Setup programs read the version number from the properties of the EXE file. It's a resource entry inside the Windows project. You can see this version number in a compiled EXE when you are looking to the properties of the .EXE file and change to the tab "Version". Regards Heiko
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Posted on 2008-07-26 22:31:47-07 by exiftool in response to 8416
Re: Version information in Windows EXE
Now I understand. I will look into this.

- Phil
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Posted on 2008-09-11 14:45:12-07 by exiftool in response to 8417
Re: Version information in Windows EXE
Hi Heiko,

Sorry for the delay, but your request made me realize that Windows EXE files contain meta information that exiftool could be extracting. So as well as setting this information in exiftool.exe, version 7.42 can now read the information too. Below is the output from the following command:

exiftool -a -g1 -S "exiftool(-k).exe"

---- ExifTool ---- ExifToolVersion: 7.42 ---- File ---- FileName: exiftool(-k).exe Directory: . FileSize: 3.4 MB FileModifyDate: 2008:09:10 20:22:35 FileType: Win32 EXE MIMEType: application/octet-stream ---- EXE ---- MachineType: Intel 386 or later, and compatibles TimeStamp: 2006:06:02 06:45:17 PEType: PE32 LinkerVersion: 6.0 CodeSize: 12288 InitializedDataSize: 917504 UninitializedDataSize: 0 EntryPoint: 0x354c OSVersion: 4.0 ImageVersion: 0.0 SubsystemVersion: 4.0 Subsystem: Windows command line FileVersionNumber: 7.4.2.0 ProductVersionNumber: 7.4.2.0 FileFlagsMask: 0x003f FileFlags: Debug FileOS: Windows NT 32-bit ObjectFileType: Executable application FileSubtype: 0 LanguageCode: Process default CharacterSet: Unicode Comments: ExifTool EXE for Windows CompanyName: Phil Harvey FileDescription: Read and Write meta information FileVersion: 7.4.2.0 InternalName: ExifTool LegalCopyright: Copyright (c) 2003-2008, Phil Harvey LegalTrademarks: OriginalFilename: exiftool(-k).exe PrivateBuild: ProductName: ExifTool ProductVersion: 7.4.2.0 SpecialBuild: BundledPerlVersion: ActivePerl 5.8.7 HomePage: http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

- Phil
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Posted on 2008-09-12 09:23:13-07 by heiko in response to 8787
Re: Version information in Windows EXE
Hello Phil, thank you very much for implementing this. Regards Heiko
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