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user3745161
user3745161

Reputation:

How to access the source code and/or debug a VSE

I have an old Win32 application and I need to inspect its code. This application contains the file "VVM31W.DLL", so it would seem it's a VSE (Visual Smalltalk Enterprise) application. Are there any available tools to inspect VSE executable's code and/or debug it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 188

Answers (1)

David Buck
David Buck

Reputation: 2847

The task of reverse engineering a VSE executable image may not be actually impossible but I would expect it to be extraordinarily difficult. Before spending the many months of meticulous effort to do this reverse engineering, I would first ask myself how critical it is that I see the source code. I suspect that virtually any application could be re-implemented more easily than reverse engineering a packaged runtime.

No, there are no tools to help with this. Yes, it will be very difficult.

Upvotes: 1

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