Thread: Exe to source code

  1. #1
    Registered User
    Join Date
    Oct 2002
    Posts
    98

    Exe to source code

    A program written by someone who has since left the company is not doing quite what we thought it was supposed to do.

    I've been asked to try and decompile the program, and work out what it does etc, but I've never tried to do anything like this before.

    I'm afraid I don't know which compiler was used originally, though it was definitely written in C, and the executable is running on windows.

    Can anyone give me some pointers?

    Thanks.

  2. #2
    Mayor of Awesometown Govtcheez's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2001
    Location
    MI
    Posts
    8,823
    Try this or another disassembler and hope it works - there's no sure thing for this.

  3. #3
    &TH of undefined behavior Fordy's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2001
    Posts
    5,793
    You can only dissasemble to assembly code reliably....

    Better to rewrite what you need if you dont have the original code

Popular pages Recent additions subscribe to a feed

Similar Threads

  1. How to make a program that prints it's own source code???
    By chottachatri in forum C++ Programming
    Replies: 38
    Last Post: 03-28-2008, 07:06 PM
  2. Replies: 4
    Last Post: 01-18-2008, 07:05 PM
  3. DxEngine source code
    By Sang-drax in forum Game Programming
    Replies: 5
    Last Post: 06-26-2003, 05:50 PM
  4. Lines from Unix's source code have been copied into the heart of Linux????
    By zahid in forum A Brief History of Cprogramming.com
    Replies: 13
    Last Post: 05-19-2003, 03:50 PM
  5. extracting source code from exe
    By Lord CyKill in forum C++ Programming
    Replies: 6
    Last Post: 04-13-2003, 08:12 PM