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How to REALLY strip a binary in MacOs

MacOs 10.6, if I have a file "unwanted.c" which contains: class secret_thing { public: secret_thing() {} void revealing_method_name() {} }; main() { secret_thing obj; obj.revealing_method_name(); } Now I do: $ g++ unwanted.c -o unwanted $ strip unwanted $ nm unwanted | grep secret 0000000100000eb8 T __ZN12secret_thing21revea...

alignment of sections and memory within an EXE file

What are the alignment of sections and memory within an EXE file I need to specify when creating using in the Mosa IL compiler? Thanks. ...

What is the difference between plain binary format (.bin) and Windows Executable (.exe)?

What is the difference between plain binary format (.bin) and Windows Executable (.exe)? ...

On Developing Native Windows Executables

Which technology stack do you recommend for developing native windows executable (has GUI), other than .NET stack? Other that C++ (MFC, ...) some could be named; yet which one is mature and pragmatic enough? Delphi 7? Common Lisp (Which one is proper for developing GUI?)? Scheme? Qt or wxXXX stack? ...

How to silent run an installer of another program(PostgreSQL) during the installation in WIX?

Hello All, My company is developing an application that has a dependency on PostgreSQL, we are developping the installer by using WIX. How can we make the PostgreSQL installer (which is also a msi file) run automatically when installing our application? What do we need to set in Wix? If you happen to know any webpage explains this, plea...

how do i make an exe in netbeans? (java program)

hi. anyone know how to create a .exe in netbeans? i've had a look around and i can make a jar but not an exe. ...

Is There a Way to Tell What Language Was Used for a Program?

I have a desktop program I downloaded and installed. It runs from an .exe file. Is there some way from the .exe file to tell what programming language was used to write the program? Are there any tools are available to help with this? What languages can be determined and which ones cannot? Okay here are two of the sort of things I'...

what are java executable format both in unix and windows

I know about class/jar executable format. But jar/class can not ensure source security, because java source code(.java) can retrieve from it. I am looking for such a format where source are secure/un-retrievable. ...

Create single python executable module

Guys, I have much python code in modules which are resides in several python packages and now I need to create single python executable module or file which will include all these files, so it will be working on windows and on linux servers. What are possible solutions and how this can be done? ...

Compiling a java program into an exe

I've just made a simple program with eclipse and I want to compile it into an exe file, but can't seem to found out how to do it simply. Any suggestions? ...

Compile to a stand-alone executable (.exe) in Visual Studio

how can I make a stand-alone exe in Visual Studio. Its just a simple Console application that I think users would not like to install a tiny Console application. I compiled a simple cpp file using the visual studio command prompt. Will the exe work even if the .NET framework is not installed? I used native C++ code. ...

How can I creating executable JAR with SWT that runs on all platforms?

SWT comes with a base JAR and one specific JAR per platform (Windows, Linux/32bit, Linux/64bit, Mac, AIX, ...). How can I create an executable JAR that will select the correct platform JAR at runtime? [EDIT] I was thinking to supply all platform JARs in a subdirectory and in main() would then modify the class loader. Has anyone already ...

Is there a way of knowing when an executable was last executed?

In Windows, is there a way to find out when an executable was last executed? It seems unlikely that something like this would be saved, but I'm open for other suggestions. It would be enough to know if it was executed "recently", for example since the computer was started, the last hour etc. I'm open for hackish ideas, like checking...

Why an executable program for a specific CPU does not work on Linux and Windows?

An executable problem like exe does not work on Linux (without wine). When compiling source code compiler produce object code which is specific to a particular cpu architecture. But same application does not work with on an another OS with same CPU. I know code may include instructions to specific to the OS that will prevent executable r...

Execute a binary file in ruby (on Heroku)

Is it possible to execute a little binary file (required for payment processing) with Kernel#exec from a ruby app hosted on Heroku ? Or do I need to switch to another rails hosting solution ? ...

Why Test crashes using NUnit / TestDriven.Net2.0 ?

I have a Set of TestFixtures running fine. I added a new Test into the fixture, but for some reason, I am not able to run it. Other tests in other classes and even in the same class run fine. Both NUnit GUI / TestDriven crash If I run from NUnit GUI I get this error: NUnit has stopped Working with this message Description: Stoppe...

How to check if a program is using .NET?

Can we check if a running application or a program uses .Net framework to execute itself? ...

Extract icon from executable that's in memory

Does anyone know an API function to extract an icon resource from an executable file that's in RAM (inside, say, a MemoryStream)? All of the icon-extracting functions I've seen so far depend on the executable file being present on disk. I'd like to extract the icon without having to write the exe to a temp file, and then loading the re...

Referencing libraries for a Linux executable

I have written an application in Java and succesfully compiled it using gcj. It worked surprisingly well, but I've run into a hurdle: I can only run the executable through a shell script, because I have to specify the library paths. The libraries I need are SWT, Xerces and GNU-crypto. Is there a way to statically link the libraries whe...

How to create a single executable file in Visual Studio 2008 ?

Hi, I've created a Windows Forms Application in Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5. Now I want to finalize my project, i.e. to create a single .exe file which I can give to someone and he will be able to run it on his computer. In my project files I found bin/Debug directory where I see a .exe file. Can I just use this file as is, or I am mi...