Windows CE PE Info

This tool extracts information from the PE header and is specifically made to examine Windows CE executables. You can use it to find out which processor architecture as well as which Version of Windows CE the program was compiled for.

Usage

Usage: wcepeinfo [-j] [-n] [-f FIELDNAME] FILE
Print information from a Windows CE PE header.

  -j, --json               print output as JSON
  -f, --field FIELDNAME    only print the value of the field with key FIELDNAME
                           overrides --json option
  -h, --help               print help
  -v, --version            print version information
  -b, --basic              print only WCEApp, WCEArch and WCEVersion

Examples:
  wcepeinfo f.exe     Print information about file f.exe.
  wcepeinfo -j f.exe  Print JSON formatted information about file f.exe.

Example: JSON output

$ wcepeinfo -j file.exe

Example: Single field output

$ wcepeinfo -f WCEArch file.exe
ARM

Useful fields

Using the -b option prints the 3 most useful fields for identifying Windows CE software

• WCEApp - Indicates whether this is a Windows CE Binary, based on architecture and subsystem. Not 100% reliable for early Windows CE apps.
• WCEArch - Architecture, can be one of: "MIPS", "SH3", "SH4", "ARM", "X86"
• WCEVersion - Windows CE Core version, usually one of: "1.0", "1.01", "2.0", "2.01", "2.10", "2.11", "2.12", "3.0", "4.0", "4.10", "4.20", "5.0", "6.0", "7.0", "8.0"

Example:

$ wcepeinfo -b ./htmledit.exe
WCEApp: 1
WCEVersion: 2.0
WCEArch: SH3

DLL imports are visible when using the -j option

JSON Output

The tool outputs formatted JSON when used with the -j tag, ideal for being used in JS/TS apps.

Typescript types are provides in WinCEPEInfoType.ts.

Limitations

Since there is no way to find out, the tool can't tell whether a program was compiled for Handheld PCs or Pocket PCs/Palm-Size PCs. There is an option of looking at DLL imports, so if a program imports a PocketPC-only DLL, you could fairly certainly say that the program was compiled for PocketPC.

Building

make install

For Windows with ming64

make clean && make CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc

For Windows CE

make clean && make CC=arm-mingw32ce-gcc

Thanks

Thanks go to Atkelar and C:Amie for helping out