WRCINFO(1)

okay bestie, welcome to the wrcinfo() page — manual name wrcinfo, hanging out in LOCAL — and it's literally here to spill the tea on Windows Resource (RC) streams in the .rsrc section of a MZ, PE/COFF executable 🫶✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

wrcinfo — determines information about a Windows Resource (RC) streams in the .rsrc section of a MZ, PE/COFF executable. resource-section main character energy, no cap 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the vibe check is literally:

wrcinfo [-hHvV] [-c codepage] source

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so, wrcinfo is a utility to determine information about a Windows Resource (RC) streams in the .rsrc section of a MZ, PE/COFF executable. It's giving Windows Resource detective.

wrcinfo is part of the libwrc package. libwrc is a library to access the Windows Resource Compiler (WRC) format. periodt, that's the package lore.

source is the source file. simple as that, bestie. 🎀

The options are as follows:

• -c codepage — specify the codepage of ASCII strings, options: ascii, windows-874, windows-932, windows-936, windows-949, windows-950, windows-1250, windows-1251, windows-1252 (default), windows-1253, windows-1254, windows-1255, windows-1256, windows-1257 or windows-1258
• -h — shows this help
• -H — shows the resource hierarchy
• -v — verbose output to stderr
• -V — print version

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

None. No env vars, no drama — literally none on this page. 🙈

🎀 FILES 🎀

None. No files listed here either. 🍓

🦋 EXAMPLES 🦋

okay, example time — this is the whole serve:

# wrcinfo adtschema.dll
wrcinfo 20211230

Windows Resource (RC) information:

Resources:
        11 (MESSAGETABLE)
        14 (VERSIONINFO)
        WEVT_TEMPLATE
        MUI

Version resource:
        number of languages     : 1

        language identifier     : 0x00000409 (en-US)
        file version            : 6.0.6000.16386
        product version         : 6.0.6000.16386

MUI resource:
        number of languages     : 1

        language identifier     : 0x00000409 (en-US)
        file type               : 0x00000011
        main name               : WEVT_TEMPLATE
        MUI name                : MUI
        language                : en-US
        fallback language       : en-US

Message-table resource:
        number of languages     : 1

        language identifier     : 0x00000409 (en-US)
        number of messages      : 399

        message                 : 0
        identifier              : 0x70003000
        data                    : Security State Change

      ...

🔥 DIAGNOSTICS 🔥

Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. Verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation. so if the extra chatter isn't showing up, it's a compile-time situation, iykyk.

💀 BUGS 💀

Please report bugs of any kind to <joachim.metz@gmail.com> or on the project website: https://github.com/libyal/libwrc/ they want the bug reports, fr fr. 🐛

👑 AUTHOR 👑

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz. author credit, slay. ✍️

💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright (C) 2011-2024, Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. read that NO again, bestie.

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

wrcexport(1) — the one and only SEE ALSO bestie 💜

and that's the page! signing off from the libwrc source/version, dated December 30, 2021 — mwah 💋🫶