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Hi,

Does anyone knows how easy is to decompiled a xHarbour app.?

What are the main tools available for it ?

Regards
Antonio

Antonio,

If you don't want your application to be ever decompiled, then you should compress it using a tool like UPX and using a password so it may not be decompressed (btw, UPX seems not to support passwords).

To All

Absolutely use a compression tool to keep anyone from de-compiling your app .. the comression tool we use is ASPack.

http://www.aspack.com

Compression gets you very fast load times typically a 2 mg executable shrinks down to around 700k .. an indespensible tool in your inventory.

Rick Lipkin

I'm trying Pecompact2 and it seems to be ok. Has password ecryption option.

Antonio

Rick,

Are you using aspack with Vista. I have download the trial and after installing the program, the compression is working fine.
If I want to launch aspack again for compressing another program, I allways get an vista-error tha it can't be executed. After uninstalling and installing it again, it runs fine again, but only 1 time again.

Is this because it's the trial. I saw that the trial version was copyright 2002. Maybe it's an old version...

The compressed file keeps running fine

Regards,
Marc

MArk

Vista works just fine for me .. however we have a site license and it is registered. We have a .reg file that we apply to license our version .. may be the difference.

Rick

Rick,

The date of the exe in the trial is 15/1/2002 and the version is 2.12.
Maybe when you buy the software there is a newer version available...

Regards,
Marc

Mark

I have the same executable .. ver 2.12 dated 01/15/2002.

RIck Lipkin