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https://github.com/vweevers/win-version-info

Windows-only native addon to read version info from executables.
https://github.com/vweevers/win-version-info

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Windows-only native addon to read version info from executables.

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/vweevers/win-version-info
Owner: vweevers
License: mit
Created: 2016-03-27T14:10:56.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2024-01-01T01:57:34.000Z (about 1 year ago)
Last Synced: 2025-01-09T07:34:26.910Z (19 days ago)
Topics: exe, metadata, nodejs, pe, windows
Language: C++
Homepage:
Size: 65.4 KB
Stars: 19
Watchers: 1
Forks: 6
Open Issues: 5
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- License: LICENSE

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README

        # win-version-info

**Windows-only native addon to read version info from executables. A noop on other platforms.**

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## Example

```js

const vi = require('win-version-info')

console.log(vi(process.argv[2]))

```

```

> node example "C:\Program Files (x86)\Firefox Developer Edition\firefox.exe"

{ FileVersion: '46.0.0.5903',

  LegalCopyright: '©Firefox and Mozilla Developers; available under the MPL 2 license.',

  CompanyName: 'Mozilla Corporation',

  FileDescription: 'FirefoxDeveloperEdition',

  ProductVersion: '46.0a2',

  InternalName: 'FirefoxDeveloperEdition',

  LegalTrademarks: 'Firefox is a Trademark of The Mozilla Foundation.',

  OriginalFilename: 'firefox.exe',

  ProductName: 'FirefoxDeveloperEdition',

  BuildID: '20160229004006' }

```

## Install

With [npm](https://npmjs.org) do:

```

npm install win-version-info

```

## License

[MIT](./LICENSE). The main body of this project comes from [ShowVer](http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/2457/ShowVer-exe-command-line-VERSIONINFO-display-progr) © Ted Peck 2002. Converting between UTF-16 and UTF-8 made possible by [UTF8Conversion](https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/C-UTF-8-Conversion-Helpers-22c0a664) ([Apache License 2.0](http://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.html)) © 2011 Giovanni Dicanio.