Win32::Exe - Manipulate Win32 executable files
This document describes version 0.10 of Win32::Exe, released January 14, 2007.
use Win32::Exe; my $exe = Win32::Exe->new('c:/windows/notepad.exe'); # Get version information print $exe->version_info->get('FileDescription'), ": ", $exe->version_info->get('LegalCopyright'), "\n"; # Dump icons in an executable foreach my $icon ($exe->icons) { printf "Icon: %s x %s (%s colors)\n", $icon->Width, $icon->Height, 2 ** $icon->BitCount; } # Import icons from a .exe or .ico file and writes back the file $exe->update( icon => '/c/windows/taskman.exe' ); # Change it to a console application, then save to another .exe $exe->SetSubsystem('console'); $exe->write('c:/windows/another.exe'); # Add a manifest section $exe->update( manifest => $mymanifestxml ); # or a default $exe->update( defaultmanifest => 1 );
This module parses and manipulating Win32 PE/COFF executable headers, including version information, icons and other resources.
More documentation will be provided in due time. For now, please look at the test files in the source distributions t/ directory for examples of using this module.
Audrey Tang <cpan@audreyt.org>
Mark Dootson
Steffen Mueller <smueller@cpan.org>
Copyright 2004-2007 by Audrey Tang <cpan@audreyt.org>.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html
To install Win32::Exe, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Win32::Exe
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Win32::Exe
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.