How to change windows exe file's icon in linux without wine?

Question

I know I can use ResHacker to change a resource from windows and I know I can use ResourceUpdate function to do the same problematically (again in windows). My problem is that I have to update the icon of a windows exe file in linux, without using wine.

(the reason for not using wine is that this process should run on an automation server that change the files and sign them).

I don't know even where to start from.

Answer 1

You can change a files metadata like this:

gvfs-set-attribute '/path/to/file' -t stringv metadata::custom-icon "/path/to/image.png"

Answer 2

There's a program called windres that should suit your needs

Whoops, that's just a resource compiler, sorry.

However there is pefile a python module for working with PE executables, perhaps you could write a script with it that does what you want