Set Microsoft Windows Version Information on Windows executable

[karel26]

Hi mate, great work! I am working on integrating your solution into DCSServerBot atm, and I would prefer to have a version number at least in the skyeye.exe. That lets me handle autoupdates for people.
Should be a small step for you, but a big for mankind ;).

Cheers

Special K

[dharmab]

Hi, does ./skyeye.exe --version report the correct version? I know it's busted in the Docker container but I thought it was working for the native binaries.

[dharmab]

Downloaded the version from GitHub and it seems to work?

[karel26]

Yes, that is what I use atm. I just like it better, if the exe itself has the version information in its metadata.
It is ok, I can work with it. My extension is ready btw., will be in the next release of my bot!

[karel26]

That is what I do, just in case:

info = win32api.GetFileVersionInfo(os.path.expandvars(cmd), '\\')
        version = "%d.%d.%d.%d" % (info['FileVersionMS'] / MS_LSB_MULTIPLIER,
                                   info['FileVersionMS'] % MS_LSB_MULTIPLIER,
                                   info['FileVersionLS'] / MS_LSB_MULTIPLIER,
                                   info['FileVersionLS'] % MS_LSB_MULTIPLIER)

[dharmab]

Ah, looks like there's a module to help with that in Go: https://github.com/josephspurrier/goversioninfo

My graphics card in my Windows PC broke and I'm waiting for the RMA process to complete, I can look at it after that.

[karel26]

Yeah, you can have a look at my sneaker fork, I added it in there also. You just need to create a simple versioninfo.json
It is low priority though, my extensions is working without it already, as long as you keep the -v also.