Strings, between double-quote (') characters, may contain typical 'C' style backslashed 'escaped' characters - \t, \n, \\, \', \x, \u and \377 (octal). #DEFINE, #UNDEF, #IF, #ELIF, #ELSE, #IFDEF, #IFNDEF, #INCLUDE, and #PRAGMA directives are all supported. While Resource Hacker™ is primarily a GUI application, it also provides many options for compiling and decompiling resources from the command-line.Ĭompiling can be initiated either by opening an existing resource script file, or by creating one from scratch using Resource Hacker's editor.Ī complete list of Resource-Definition Statements can be found here.Īdditional features of Resource Hacker's compiler include: The #INCLUDE directive (to access definition statements in header files etc) can be nested to multiple levels, as can the #IF, and #IFDEF directives. It's both a resource compiler (for *.rc files), and a decompiler - enabling viewing and editing of resources in executables (*.exe *.dll *.scr etc) and compiled resource libraries (*.res, *.mui). Resource Hacker™ is a resource editor for 32bit and 64bit Windows® applications.
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