I need a command line tool to dump standard Windows DLL version info so I can process it by means of a bash script (Cygwin).
As a Java developer I am not very used to Microsoft development tools (though I have a little bit of experience with Microsoft Visual Embedded C++ 4.0 and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0).
The appropriate tool seems to be mt.exe, as stated on SO. However the only chance I have found to get this little application is to download a 1.29 GB ISO of the Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework. I can not believe this is the only way to do it.
I have also found a little application on the Internet called PEView, but it displays too much (and useless in my case) information and it is not a command line application.
Standard objdump bundled inside Cygwin can also dump some information about the DLL files, but I can not see the option to dump DLL version. Note that MajorImageVersion, MinorImageVersion and other fields dumped by this tool (with -p option) are not related to own DLL version.
Any alternatives about what to do? Maybe I missed some important objdump option? Is mt.exe my only choice? If this is the case, is it possible to get it separately from Windows SDK?
You can also look at filever.exe, which can be downloaded as part of the Windows XP SP2 Support Tools package – only 4.7MB of download.