Reading EXEs
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| Can anyone point me in the direction of a website or something that could teach me about how *.exe files are structured? I want to be able to create an application that can run applications. |
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| A quick google gave me this: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/PECOFF.mspx What are you going to do, write an emulator? You do know that you can launch them without parsing them? |
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| If you're making an application that is capable of running 'hosted' applications, take a look to the MaxIDE code, the debuger is doing exactly what you're descriving. |
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| Can I ask that you don't start multiple threads until you've given enough time for a response to be made? Application Linking Unless you are actually wanting to parse an EXE file, in which case this quite rightly is a different issue. Wotsit (EXE Search) |
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| The Application Linking thread was for a whole different project that I am doing and it's very coincidental that the two threads interlock so closely. I'm not trying to host an application. I want to create an application that reads an exe and executes the code in an entirely separate environment (like a Windows within Windows kind of thing). |
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| I want to create an application that reads an exe and executes the code in an entirely separate environment (like a Windows within Windows kind of thing). Ahhh right! Did you check out the Wotsit link I gave you above? |
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| Yes I did, and truthfully...none of this stuff makes a lick of sense to me. I'll be looking more into this matter but for now, none of this has any affect on the way I see an PE file. Most of the information has to do with pointers and address and I never understood any of that anyway so I'll have to learn that before I learn about the structure. |
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