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    <p>First of all, this is not a duplicate of the very common question of making an EXE from Java classes. I do not need to do that.</p> <p>To solve NetBeans <a href="http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=64612" rel="noreferrer">RFE #64612</a> without <a href="http://wiki.netbeans.org/DevFaqExecutableIcon#Windows_Icons" rel="noreferrer">manual steps</a> I need a Java (6+) library which can take an <em>existing</em> Windows <code>*.exe</code> file and replace its icon with a substitute in a common format. The executable, which is generic and prebuilt (distributed in binary form), already knows how to load an application-specific config file and then start the JRE with various application JARs etc.; the only problem is that it has a generic icon, and I would like to replace that icon as part of a pure Java build with an application-specific icon, so it looks prettier.</p> <p>The library must be available under a nonviral open-source license; cross-platform (must run on Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris) so cannot fork some OS-specific helper tool; and must accept PNG input, though the EXE must work on XP so <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICO_(file_format)#History" rel="noreferrer">according to Wikipedia</a> should embed BMP format. At a high level, supposing Ant as a build tool, I would like something like this:</p> <p><code>&lt;replaceicon from="app.exe" to="hello.exe" icon="hello.png"/&gt;</code></p> <p>Does anyone know if a tool matching these specifications already exists? From various web searches I found <a href="http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/" rel="noreferrer">Launch4J</a>, but this appears to just fork <a href="http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/binutils/windres.html" rel="noreferrer">windres</a> for the real work, thus not trivially portable. I found <a href="http://jsmooth.sourceforge.net/" rel="noreferrer">JSmooth</a> which looks more promising - appears to include Java code to handle the ICO codec and manipulate PE files - but it is GPL. <a href="http://winrun4j.sourceforge.net/" rel="noreferrer">WinRun4J</a> looks to use native code for icon manipulation, though I had a hard time following its sources. <a href="http://java.sun.com/products/jimi/" rel="noreferrer">Jimi</a> supposedly handles the ICO format (for that matter the standard <code>javax.imageio</code> seems to as well) but I guess has no facility for updating PE resources.</p>
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    1. CORelated question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1614772/how-to-change-jframe-icon
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    2. COA linked question points to http://java.net/projects/pe-file-reader but this is GPL and appears to only read, not write, PE files.
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