Binary File Modules

[Matt Seddon]

Hello all.  Recently, I needed to extract version information from windows 
.exe and .dll files, which spurred me to create a new module that sneaks 
into a Portable Executable and pull out all sorts of info:

  use FileFormat::PE;

  my $x = new FileFormat::PE("/mnt/winc/windows/explorer.exe");

  print "MajorVersion: " . $x->major_version() . "\n";
  print "MinorVersion: " . $x->minor_version() . "\n";
  print "Copyright: " . $x->copyright() . "\n";
etc...

It's not yet completly functional, but is aimed at extracting everything you 
never wanted to know about a binary (probably including resource icons for 
humour factor).

It is pure perl, is tested, and runs happily under linux, OS-X and Win32.

But it gets better- I'm drawing up plans to do exactly the same with 
linux/ELF binaries, and any other binary format I can get my grubby little 
mitts on.

I would like to try and keep them all in a coherant package, FileFormat::PE 
seems a little ambiguous, and Win32 isn't where I'd look for a 
cross-platform package.  Any suggestions?

Does anyone else actually even have a use for this package? :)

Cheers,
  Matt Seddon.
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