Can you ask an exe which compiler it was built with? 1

[Mthales]

I just wanted to know if there was an execution flag or a seperate file that I could use to ask an exe which compiler it was built with?

Thanks for any help

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[Salem]

Only in very broad terms, and even then it relies on someone not stripping the executable file, and not compressing it with an exe compressor.

And you can't really tell which version of a compiler was used, or which command line options were used to compile the program.

Some examples.

> strings -a zip.exe | grep -i micro
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
Microsoft C %d.%02d
> strings -a build.exe | grep -i borland
Borland C++ - Copyright 1999 Inprise Corporation
Borland32

strings is a Unix / Linux / cygwin utility which searches for printable string fragments in all sorts of files.

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[Mthales]

Thanks very much for your help on this, it was invaluable.
M

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