Thread: How do I open a .exe file with C++?

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    Question How do I open a .exe file with C++?

    It is a program that I had made but have lost its code....
    I have its .exe file but it doesn't have an " open with.." option....

    HELP

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    You mean you have a program, but you don't have its source? And you expect to open that program within some program to get the source?
    Sorry to disappoint you, but that can't be done. If you lost the source, then unfortunately for you, there's nothing you can do rather than rebuild the source from scratch (unless you have a backup of the source). Now rebuilding it is an entirely different story, though.
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    io.h certainly IS included in some modern compilers. It is no longer part of the standard for C, but it is nevertheless, included in the very latest Pelles C versions.
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    You mean it's included as a crutch to help ancient programmers limp along without them having to relearn too much.

    Outside of your DOS world, your header file is meaningless.

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    Yes, the process of "reverse compilation" has been discussed before. There is really no simple way that you can do that. That's like taking a cake and from it produce eggs, flour sugar and milk - it's not possible. You can, given sufficient resource, figure out what the code does and reverse engineer the solution, but that's not a simple process either.

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    You can convert it to Assembly code, but even then there wouldn't be any comments or useful names, so it would still be virtually unreadable to Humans.

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    start coding man!!

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