.PRI File Extension

Software development settings file used by applications created for Qt, a cross-platform framework commonly used for building and running mobile applications; contains settings for the qmake command, which builds the application; used for specifying locations of developer files and platform-specific definitions.

Resources file introduced by Microsoft for Windows 8 applications; saved in a compiled binary format and contains strings that are used for localizing the application user interface for different languages and contexts; compiled from a .RESW source file, which is included as part of the development project.

PRI files can be written back to plain text using the makepri dump command. The makepri.exe program is included with Microsoft software development kits. For the Windows 8 Developer Preview, it is located in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\bin\x64\ and C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\bin\x86\ directories.