Version viewer - link timestamp support

[kevinsikes]

In addition to the file system timestamp, it would be very helpful to see the link timestamp from the file's PE header, which shows when the .DLL or .EXE was created by the linker. Here is some sample C code to get this information:

#include <windows.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <DbgHelp.h>

#ifdef _MSC_VER
#pragma comment(lib, "dbghelp.lib")
#endif

void main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
if (argc > 1)
{
HANDLE hFile;
if ((hFile = CreateFile(argv[1], GENERIC_READ, FILE_SHARE_READ, NULL,
OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL)) != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
{
HANDLE hMap;
if ((hMap = CreateFileMapping(hFile, NULL, PAGE_READONLY, 0, 0, "PEmap")) != NULL)
{
HMODULE hAddress;
if ((hAddress = (HMODULE)MapViewOfFile(hMap, FILE_MAP_READ, 0, 0, 4096)) != NULL)
{
time_t t;
if ((t = GetTimestampForLoadedLibrary(hAddress)) != 0)
{
printf("%s link timestamp is %s\n", argv[1], asctime(localtime(&t)));
}
UnmapViewOfFile(hAddress);
}
CloseHandle(hMap);
}
CloseHandle(hFile);
}
}
}

Example output from the sample code:
petime c:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll link timestamp is Wed Aug 04 03:56:36 2004

Thanks!
Kevin Sikes

[Chris]

Hi Kevin,

Thank you for the suggestion. I'll add display of the link timestamp to our feature wish list for Beyond Compare.