Note: this advanced option screen is reachable by selecting the "Executable" step and choosing "Version info" from the Advanced options popup menu or by clicking directly on the index.
In this step of the exe4j wizard, you can configure whether a version info resource should be generated in the executable and what values the version info fields should take.
A version info resource will enable the Windows operating system to determine meta information about your executable. This information is displayed in various locations. For example, when opening the property dialog for the executable in the Windows explorer, a "Version" tab will be present in the property dialog if you have chosen to generate the version info resource.
The version info resource consists of several pieces of information.
If you check Generate version info resource
, there are several
fields whose values must be entered in the text fields on this step. Note
that the "original file name" and the "product name" fields in the version info
resource are filled in automatically by exe4j.
-r
flag for the
command line compiler, the product version
can be overidden. The product version is also used in the
splash screen version line config as a replacement
value for the variable %VERSION%
.