What does a “version file” look like?

Question

I\'ve been googling this for ages now without results. The PyInstaller manual says:

--version-file=FILE
    add a version resource from FILE to the exe

Answer 1

Create your Version file using an earlier answer save it as version.rc

Locate the filename.spec file open it. next in that script, locate the:

exe = EXE(pyz,...)

at the end of that entire section add this piece of code to automatically embed the version information on your exe file

version='version.rc'

Save it and then launch pyinstaller again and this time run the installer using this code:

pyinstaller filename.spec 

this will not only create the exe file itself but also include all of your version information as well.

In case you may not have thought about it, replace the filename with your program's filename