I've scoured Google and found to large a variety of tools and answers. I want to disassemble a DLL into something at least readable, e.g. recognise Win32 API calls by their names etc. How do I go about this?
A:
I think what you're looking for are the Windows Symbol Packages. When you install these, you're basically getting symbol information (debugging info) for the majority of the Windows API, including Kernel32 and advapi (which I find to be the two biggies in my programming).
You might need to tell your debugger and/or compiler where the symbols live though - just make sure you remember where they install to, then you can use a debugger option (sometimes called "sympath") to tell the debugger where to find them.
Mike
2009-02-20 20:36:42