Revert EXE to cap file

Hello,

I was wondering if an executable created with Construct can be technically revert into the source file ? I have read a bit the source code of Construct, and the export mechanism seems to save the events directlt into the executable ressources. Thus, is it possible for someone to create a decompiler ?

Technically, I believe so yes.

I remember the same thing happening with Game Maker. It caused quite a storm I think. Fortunately, someone forwarded the code to decompile .exes to the main developer of GM and it's going to be fixed in the Game Maker 8.

http://www.messy-mind.net/2008/complete-gm-decompiler/

http://my.opera.com/smarttart62/blog/show.dml/339421

If a decompiler was created, i don't think it would be nescessary to make all the .exes undecompileable (good work there me on creating that word. Thank you!). I would prefere to make it an option. Something like "lock .exe from decompiling".

Is it the same thing as it would be for GM? That uses scripts, whereas the event format of Construct is pretty different. I'd imagine that to create a decompiler would be alot more work than just taking the script out the .exe.

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yeah, i get the feeling that if it's possible, it will be done.

Hmm do we really want our compiled projects to be reverse-engineered? If we wanted to share our project code, we'd share the cap, not compiled exe.

[quote:1thuoprw]Is it the same thing as it would be for GM? That uses scripts, whereas the event format of Construct is pretty different. I'd imagine that to create a decompiler would be alot more work than just taking the script out the .exe.

Maybe just open the ressources of an executable to a CApplication like the runtime, and save the CApplication to a cap file like the IDE would work..

Anyway, I am not a hacker and I don't want to make a decompiler, that was just a question.

A degree of reverse engineering is always possible in all programs (if you had the tools you can disassemble any compiled program back to assembly, for example - and this is especially problematic for .NET I think, which relies on obfuscators).

Considering the amount of work it'd take to reverse engineer a Construct EXE I'd say it's implausible for now - and remember you lose all edittime-only things like comments.