Reverse Engineering .exe file to determine LabVIEW version

[ajAlex]

I have an executable file that was created a few years ago. I'm wondering if there is a way to reverse engineer the file to determine which version of LabVIEW was used to create it.

Thank you.

[RavensFan]

Why would you need to know?

[billko]

Maybe they want to match it up to an RTE?  If this is the case, you could just put it on a system that never had anything LabVIEW-related on it and try to run it.  It should tell you what RTE it is expecting, and therefore what version of LabVIEW.

[Hooovahh]

As others have said just running the VI and seeing what it asks for is probably the best option.  However I have looked into how to do this programatically and I did post this over on the Idea Exchange where people can vote for this to be an official feature.

https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Get-LabVIEW-RTE-version-of-an-already-built-EXE/idi-p...

There I said:

Another way I have found that works a little better (but not much), is to extract the EXE using 7-zip, navigate to the EXE\.rsrc\RCDATA\ folder and look at the files that are small (less then 1kb).  One of them will be the version of LabVIEW it was built with as text.  This likely doesn't work for all LabVIEW built EXEs just recent ones (likely 2009 and newer)