Quickpost: Compiling EXEs and Resources with MinGW on Kali

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To compile a Windows executable with version information and an icon on Kali, we use MinGW again.

The version information and icon (demo.ico) we want to use are defined in a resource file (demo.rc):

#include "winver.h"

#define IDI_ICON1                       101


/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

//

// Version

//


#define VER_FILEVERSION             0,0,0,1

#define VER_FILEVERSION_STR         “0.0.0.1\0”


#define VER_PRODUCTVERSION          0,0,0,1

#define VER_PRODUCTVERSION_STR      “0.0.0.1\0”


#ifndef DEBUG

#define VER_DEBUG                   0

#else

#define VER_DEBUG                   VS_FF_DEBUG

#endif


VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO

FILEVERSION     VER_FILEVERSION

PRODUCTVERSION  VER_PRODUCTVERSION

FILEFLAGSMASK   VS_FFI_FILEFLAGSMASK

FILEFLAGS       VER_DEBUG

FILEOS          VOS__WINDOWS32

FILETYPE        VFT_APP

FILESUBTYPE     VFT2_UNKNOWN

BEGIN

BLOCK “StringFileInfo”

BEGIN

BLOCK “040904E4”

BEGIN

VALUE “CompanyName”, “example.com”

VALUE “FileDescription”, “demo”

VALUE “FileVersion”, VER_FILEVERSION_STR

VALUE “InternalName”, “demo.exe”

VALUE “LegalCopyright”, “Public domain”

VALUE “OriginalFilename”, “demo.exe”

VALUE “ProductName”, “demo”

VALUE “ProductVersion”, VER_PRODUCTVERSION_STR

END

END

BLOCK “VarFileInfo”

BEGIN

VALUE “Translation”, 0x409, 1252

END

END


/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

//

// Icon

//


// Icon with lowest ID value placed first to ensure application icon

// remains consistent on all systems.

IDI_ICON1               ICON                    “demo.ico”

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

More info on the VERSIONINFO resource can be found here.
We use the resource compiler windres, and then the gcc compiler.

Compile for 64-bit:

x86_64-w64-mingw32-windres demo.rc demo-resource-x64.o
x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -o demo-x64.exe demo-resource-x64.o demo.c

Compile for 32-bit:

i686-w64-mingw32-windres demo.rc demo-resource-x86.o
i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -o demo-x86.exe demo-resource-x86.o demo.c

 

DemoResource_V_0_0_0_1.zip (https)
MD5: 9104DDC70264A9C2397258F292CC8FE4
SHA256: 722B3B52BAE6C675852A4AC728C08DBEEF4EC9C96F81229EF36E30FB54DC49DE

Quickpost info

Article Link: https://blog.didierstevens.com/2018/09/17/quickpost-compiling-exes-and-resources-with-mingw-on-kali/