I'm using an external file (verinfo.rc) to generated the details of the compiled EXE file. Here is an example of how my file looks like:

VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
FILEVERSION             1,0,0,0
PRODUCTVERSION          1,0,0,0
BEGIN
    BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
    BEGIN
        BLOCK "040904b0"
        BEGIN
        VALUE "Comments",         "Company Soft"
        VALUE "CompanyName",      "Company2"
        VALUE "FileDescription",  "Company Soft"
        VALUE "FileVersion",      "x.x.x.x"
        VALUE "InternalName",     "Company Soft"
        VALUE "LegalCopyright",   "Company2"
        VALUE "OriginalFilename", "abrev.exe"
        VALUE "ProductName",      "Company Soft"
        VALUE "ProductVersion",   "x.x.x.x"
        END
    END
    BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
    BEGIN
        VALUE "Translation", 0x0409,1200
    END
END

Looking into the compiled EXE's details using the Explorer I note that some data get wrecked and crazy symbols appears. What is happening?

CodePudding user response：

try terminating your string values with a null terminator \0, eg:

VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
FILEVERSION             1,0,0,0
PRODUCTVERSION          1,0,0,0
BEGIN
    BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
    BEGIN
        BLOCK "040904b0"
        BEGIN
        VALUE "Comments",         "Company Soft\0"
        VALUE "CompanyName",      "Company2\0"
        VALUE "FileDescription",  "Company Soft\0"
        VALUE "FileVersion",      "x.x.x.x\0"
        VALUE "InternalName",     "Company Soft\0"
        VALUE "LegalCopyright",   "Company2\0"
        VALUE "OriginalFilename", "abrev.exe\0"
        VALUE "ProductName",      "Company Soft\0"
        VALUE "ProductVersion",   "x.x.x.x\0"
        END
    END
    BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
    BEGIN
        VALUE "Translation", 0x0409,1200
    END
END

CodePudding user response：

As per