I've been googling this for ages now without results. The PyInstaller manual says:
--version-file=FILE add a version resource from FILE to the exe
That sounds nice. I want to put version information in my executables. The problem is that I have no clue what a "version file" looks like and I can't find a single example of one that I can use. I would consider an example of a version file as an acceptable answer to this question.
What I've tried
The manual also says:
version
Windows NT family only. version='myversion.txt'. Use GrabVersion.py to steal a version resource from an executable, and then edit the ouput to create your own. (The syntax of version resources is so arcane that I wouldn't attempt to write one from scratch.)
I have attempted this with countless executable files from my system now. I just keep getting these errors:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\pyinstaller-2.0\utils\GrabVersion.py", line 42, in vs = versioninfo.decode(sys.argv[1]) File "C:\pyinstaller-2.0\PyInstaller\utils\versioninfo.py", line 33, in decode nm = win32api.EnumResourceNames(h, RT_VERSION)[0]IndexError: list index out of range
on executables that has no version information, and:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\pyinstaller-2.0\utils\GrabVersion.py", line 43, in print vs File "C:\pyinstaller-2.0\PyInstaller\utils\versioninfo.py", line 147, in __repr__ % (indent, self.ffi.__repr__(indent), indent, File "C:\pyinstaller-2.0\PyInstaller\utils\versioninfo.py", line 251, in __repr__"filevers=%s," % fv,TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting
On the rest.