win-version-info

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

Example

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 do:

npm install win-version-info

License

MIT. The main body of this project comes from ShowVer © Ted Peck 2002. Converting between UTF-16 and UTF-8 made possible by UTF8Conversion (Apache License 2.0) © 2011 Giovanni Dicanio.

Changelog

6.0.1 - 2022-06-12

Fixed

• Restore 32-bit prebuild (acb9b62) (Vincent Weevers)

6.0.0 - 2022-06-05

The 32-bit prebuild was restored in 6.0.1.

Changed

• Breaking: drop Node.js 10 and 12 (9c7e4fa) (Vincent Weevers)
• Breaking: drop 32-bit prebuild (cb1fdec) (Vincent Weevers)
• Replace use of std::ptr_fun (8f5ac34) (Vincent Weevers)

5.0.1 - 2021-11-11

Fixed

• Include prebuilds in npm package (54fadf8) (Vincent Weevers)

5.0.0 - 2021-11-11

This version was not published to npm for lack of prebuilds; fixed in 5.0.1.

Changed

• Breaking: drop Node.js 8 (b0add44) (Vincent Weevers)
• Move to Node-API with prebuildify (cf5c6c7) (Vincent Weevers).

4.0.0 - 2021-06-07

Changed

• Breaking: bump prebuild-install from 5.x to 6.x (37bd9c9) (Vincent Weevers)
• Bump standard devDependency (d74d7a8) (Vincent Weevers)

Added

• Run tests & prebuild for node 16 (#21) (764c868) (Tim Perry)

3.1.1 - 2020-08-16

Fixed

• Move PREBUILD_TOKEN to AppVeyor (a53a1ef) (@vweevers)

3.1.0 - 2020-08-16

Changed

• Unlock dependencies (0424fbc) (@vweevers)
• Upgrade prebuild devDependency from ^9.0.0 to ^10.0.0 (e0f7d5f) (@vweevers)
• Upgrade tape devDependency from ^4.10.1 to ^5.0.0 (#15) (@vweevers)
• Upgrade hallmark devDependency from ^0.1.0 to ^2.0.0 (#9, #12) (@vweevers)
• Upgrade standard devDependency from ^12.0.1 to ^14.0.0 (#8, #11) (@vweevers)

Added

• Build for Node 14 (#16) (4219f68) (@pimterry)

3.0.1 - 2019-06-11

Changed

• Upgrade prebuild from ^8.2.1 to ^9.0.0 (#6)

Fixed

• Don't skip building if cross-compiling (#7) (@pimterry)

3.0.0 - 2019-06-01

Changed

• Update dependencies to enable Greenkeeper (#3)
• Move changelog to CHANGELOG.md (7e3bb93)
• Tweak README.md (8b37083)

Added

• Enable prebuilding for Node 12 (8307488, e4f620e) (#5) (@pimterry)

Removed

• Breaking: Drop node 6 and 9 (560c955) (#5)

Fixed

• Fix node 12 (16c0004) (#5)

2.1.0 - 2018-11-18

Changed

• Remove (need for) os filter in package.json
• Update nan from ~2.10.0 to ~2.11.1
• Update prebuild-install from ~4.0.0 to ~5.2.1
• Update prebuild devDependency from ~7.6.0 to ~8.1.2

Added

• Add standard

2.0.0 - 2018-05-19

Added

• Add prebuilds for Node 8, 9 and 10

Removed

• Breaking: Drop Node 4, 5 and 7

2.0.0-beta1 - 2016-12-03

Added

• Add prebuilds for Node 4 - 7
• Add CLI

Fixed

• Trim values
• Ignore empty values and 0.0.0.0 versions

Removed

• Drop Node < 4 support

1.0.1 - 2016-03-27

Fixed

• Fix installation of prebuilds

1.0.0 - 2016-03-27

:seedling: Initial release.