$VERSIONINFO: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 23:45, 10 May 2022

The $VERSIONINFO metacommand adds text metadata to the resulting executable for identification purposes across the OS. Windows-only.

$VERSIONINFO:key=value

Text keys can be: Comments, CompanyName, FileDescription, FileVersion, InternalName, LegalCopyright, LegalTrademarks, OriginalFilename, ProductName, ProductVersion, Web
Numeric keys can be:FILEVERSION# and PRODUCTVERSION#
- When provided, the numerical keys FILEVERSION# and PRODUCTVERSION# will also provide values to the text keys FileVersion and ProductVersion, if the text versions are not provided separately. (Phoenix Edition v0.6.0 and above)

Text and numerical values are string literals without quotes entered by programmer. No variables are accepted. (variable names would be interpreted as literals).
Numeric key=value must be 4 comma-separated numerical text values entered by programmer which usually stand for major, minor, revision and build numbers).
Not available in Linux or macOS.

Example: Adding metadata to a Windows exe compiled with QB64:

$VERSIONINFO:CompanyName=Your company name goes here
$VERSIONINFO:FILEVERSION#=1,0,0,0
$VERSIONINFO:PRODUCTVERSION#=1,0,0,0

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 {{Parameters}}
-* Text ''keys'' can be: '''CompanyName, FileDescription, InternalName, LegalCopyright, LegalTrademarks, OriginalFilename, ProductName, Web, Comments'''
+* Text ''keys'' can be: '''Comments, CompanyName, FileDescription, FileVersion, InternalName, LegalCopyright, LegalTrademarks, OriginalFilename, ProductName, ProductVersion, Web'''
 * Numeric {{Parameter|keys}} can be:'''FILEVERSION#''' and '''PRODUCTVERSION#'''
+**When provided, the numerical keys '''FILEVERSION#''' and '''PRODUCTVERSION#''' will also provide values to the text keys '''FileVersion''' and '''ProductVersion,''' if the text versions are not provided separately. (Phoenix Edition v0.6.0 and above)