Question

can someone help me write or give an example for a versioned DLL ?
I want to create a function that during the compilation – sets all the details of the DLL but I don’t know how to do it , and even how to start or where to start.

Answer 1

The three steps involved are:

1. Create a version resource script.
2. Compile the version resource script using the resource compiler.
3. Link the compiled resource file (suffix .res) into the DLL.

Example:

• main.cpp

  #include <windows.h>
  BOOL APIENTRY DllMain(HMODULE, DWORD, LPVOID) { return TRUE; }
  

• version.rc

  #define APSTUDIO_READONLY_SYMBOLS
  #include "windows.h"
  #undef APSTUDIO_READONLY_SYMBOLS
  
  LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_UK
  #pragma code_page(1252)
  
  VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
   FILEVERSION 1,9,1,7
   PRODUCTVERSION 2,2,2,2
   FILEFLAGSMASK 0x3fL
   FILEFLAGS 0x0L
   FILEOS 0x40004L
   FILETYPE 0x1L
   FILESUBTYPE 0x0L
  BEGIN
      BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
      BEGIN
          BLOCK "080904b0"
          BEGIN
              VALUE "CompanyName", "My Company.\0"
              VALUE "FileDescription", "My File\0"
              VALUE "FileVersion", "1.9.1.7\0"
              VALUE "InternalName", "my-real-file\0"
              VALUE "LegalCopyright", "Copyright © 2012 My Company Ltd.\0"
              VALUE "OriginalFilename", "my.dll\0"
              VALUE "PrivateBuild", "820\0"
              VALUE "ProductName", "My Company: my dll\0"
              VALUE "ProductVersion", "2.2.2.2\0"
          END
      END
      BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
      BEGIN
          VALUE "Translation", 0x809, 1200
      END
  END
  

From the command-line:

> rc version.rc

> cl /nologo /LD main.cpp version.RES
main.cpp

This creates a main.dll with a Version tab.

Caveat: It has been quite a while since I looked at this and have forgotten what all the content in version.rc script means.