Detect resource-only dll's

[kimoppalfens]

Hi Matt,

Have a question around a remark in the VMWare Tools policy markdown.

Exclude *ver.dll DLLs. These are not signed but they are resource-only DLLs

How do you determine a DLL is a resource-only DLL?
Are there any tools available that can help in this process?

Kim

[screamtracker]

I think its best guess. You can install vs 2022 community edition and select the c++ profiling tools to get dumpbin.
Then using /headers and /exports you can see if the output shows it exports functions or contains any code.
Try with vmware tools and see, i dont have access to those binaries.