NAME¶

wrcinfo — determines information about a Windows Resource (RC) stream of the .rsrc section of a MZ, PE/COFF executable

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

wrcinfo is a utility to determine information about a Windows Resource (RC) stream of the .rsrc section of a MZ, PE/COFF executable

wrcinfo is part of the libwrc package. libwrc is a library to access the Windows Resource Compiler (WRC) format

source is the source file.

The options are as follows:

-c codepage

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

FILES¶

None

EXAMPLES¶

# wrcinfo adtschema.dll
wrcinfo 20260625

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.

AUTHORS¶

Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>

BUGS¶

Please report bugs of any kind on the project issue tracker: https://github.com/libyal/libwrc/issues

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright (C) 2011-2026, 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.