This library can be used to extract the primary icon resource of a Windows PE executable (.exe or .dll) to an .ico file. The primary icon is the icon shown by Explorer for .exe files. The output .ico is exactly as the original application developer made it, including all available image sizes and optionally including high-res PNGs.
Copy get-exe-icon.c and get-exe-icon.h into your project. You may wish to
only copy the functions you need or modify them as appropriate for your project.
The primary function is get_exe_icon_from_file_utf16(), and almost every
other function declared in the header is a wrapper around that. Usage for
every function is documented in the header.
tests.c, along with the data in testdata contains a suite of tests. Use
your compiler of choice to compile tests.c and get-exe-icon.c and run the
test program.
- Aury Snow
- Serge Zarembsky
- Frank Chiarulli