IDR and Lazarus / fpc
lazarus / 8-Other

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tr_escape · 2015-06-25 06:55

Hello everyone,

There is an application for decompiling Delphi applications that name
is IDR.

It designed for Delphi apps but also if you lucky you can get some
informations about forms from your lazarus/fpc codes.

Actually IDR little bit dangerous if your codes need some private.

Anyone can able to see your form details and if you using Delphi maybe
can able to nearly codes...

I tried on some delphi codes (mine and found in sourceforge with
source codes) and lazarus code (mine program).

For now Lazarus codes staying in safe but Delphi users must be careful
about public definitions.

So my question is about confusing our codes. Is it possible to confuse
our codes in Lazarus/fpc?

Best regards

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marcov · 2015-06-25 07:58

No, that is all by design. It was originally done because translators
must be able to easily move/resize labels and other components a bit
in case the language they are translating to is a bit more verbose.

So basically the only problem is that IDR doesn't understand the
Lazarus resource format. FPC is improving the Windows/Delphi style
resource format though, so ultimately hopefully IDR will work on
lazarus apps too.

Note that it is only the forms, and maybe a few other properties they
can easily infer, so no "real" decompiling takes place.