rcedit

Command line tool to edit resources of exe file on Windows

Building

• Clone the repository
• Run gyp rcedit.gyp --depth .
• Build rcedit.sln with Visual Studio

Docs

Set version string:

$ rcedit "path-to-exe-or-dll" --set-version-string "Comments" "This is an exe"

Set file version:

$ rcedit "path-to-exe-or-dll" --set-file-version "10.7"

Set product version:

$ rcedit "path-to-exe-or-dll" --set-product-version "10.7"

Set icon:

$ rcedit "path-to-exe-or-dll" --set-icon "path-to-ico"

And you can change multiple things in one command:

$ rcedit "path-to-exe-or-dll" --set-icon "path-to-ico" --set-file-version "10.7"