Re: How to identify the bitness of a dll
Hello,
Take a look at filever.exe from the support.cab from the 64-bit Windows XP
or 64-bit Windows Server 2003.
see if this meets your needs
913111 How to use the Filever.exe tool to obtain specific information about
a file in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;913111
among other things it reports:
Header
The second section of the output contains the file header information.
However, because the 32-bit version of the Filever.exe tool does not
recognize x64-based files, the header information may appear differently
when you run the 32-bit version of the Filever.exe tool against a 64-bit
file. The following header information may appear in the second section of
the output:
• W32i64
This header represents a file from an Itanium-based system. This file type
appears the same way in the output of the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the
Filever.exe tool.
• Wx64
This header represents an x64-based file type. The 64-bit version of the
Filever.exe tool generates this header for an x64-based file.
• W32
This header represents an x64-based file type. The 32-bit version of the
Filever.exe tool generates this header for an x64-based file.
Note This header differs from the 32-bit file header because the header
does not include the letter "i."
• W32i
This header represents an x86-based (32-bit) file. This file type appears
the same way in the output of the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the
Filever.exe tool.
• W16
This header represents a 16-bit file. This file type appears the same way
in the output of the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the Filever.exe tool.
• DOS
This header represents an MS-DOS file.
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]
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| >From: "Tony Sperling" <tony.sperling@dbREMOVEmail.dk>
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| >Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:26:04 +0200
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| >Well, there was of course the good old DOS program. . .EXEHDR (wasn't
it?)
| >google for it, I'm sure it is still usefull and *.DLL's are really just
| >renamed *.EXE files. Or I would try and read the Header in a Hex-Editor
- if
| >you can deciffre the header information it shouldn't be very difficult to
| >run it through a special purpose parser?
| >
| >
| >Tony. . .
| >
| >
| >"santhosh.kulandaiyan" <santhosh.kulandaiyan@gmail.com> wrote in message
| >news:1965eab9-508c-405c-a996-e89ec07fd931@w1g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
| >> Hi,
| >> How to identify the bitness of a dll/exe programatically? Is there any
| >> Windows/.NET API that supports this programatically?
| >>
| >> That is , i just want to create a program which will take a dll/exe as
| >> input and identify whether it is a 32 bit or a 64 bit dll/exe..
| >>
| >> Appreciate your comments.
| >>
| >> Thanks
| >> Santhosh
| >
| >
| >