icoutils ☆

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Description:
Create and extract MS Windows icons and cursors

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: windows icons cursors cli development

Install: brew install icoutils

About:
Icoutils is a suite of command-line tools for creating and extracting Microsoft Windows icon and cursor files. It primarily consists of 'wrestool' for extracting resources from executables and 'icotool' for creating multi-format icon files. This utility is essential for developers working on cross-platform applications who need to manage Windows-specific graphical assets.

Key Features:

Extract icons and cursors from PE files (EXE, DLL)
Create multi-size and multi-format ICO files
Command-line interface for automation and scripting
Supports both 32-bit and 16-bit icon formats

Use Cases:

Extracting application icons for use in Linux or macOS file managers
Generating favicon.ico files for web applications
Automating icon resource management in build pipelines

Alternatives:

ImageMagick – More general-purpose image manipulation, but less specialized for Windows resource extraction.
Resource Hacker – Windows-only GUI tool, whereas Icoutils is cross-platform and CLI-based.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 12, 2025 9:51am		0	VERSION_BUMP	122e5fe8
Sep 14, 2024 6:07am		0	VERSION_BUMP	a683f3bb