Top "Executable" questions

An executable is a binary file that can be executed by the operating system.

What are the uses of self modifying code?

Is there any real use for self modifying code? I know that they can be used to build worms/viruses, …

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How are PE Base Relocations build up?

I'm currently having trouble understanding how PE Base Relocations are build up. I understand there can be more then one …

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Usage differences between. a.out, .ELF, .EXE, and .COFF

Don't get me wrong by looking at the question title - I know what they are (format for portable executable …

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How to read / write .exe machine code manually?

I am not well acquainted to the compiler magic. The act of transforming human-readable code (or the not really readable …

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Creating self-contained python applications

I'm trying to create a self-contained version of pisa (html to pdf converter, latest version), but I can't succeed due …

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How to achieve smaller size of the executable?

Very recently I have come back to Delphi after a long pause and written a rather straightforward utility app my …

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What is the difference in byte code like Java bytecode and files and machine code executables like ELF?

What are the differences between the byte code binary executables such as Java class files, Parrot bytecode files or CLR …

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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() {} }; …

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pack a software in Python using py2exe with 'libiomp5md.dll' not found

I have Python 2.7 on Window 7 OS. I wish to pack my project.py in an Executable using py2exe. Following …

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Converting a python 3.8 file to .exe

I've been trying to do so for a while. I followed a tutorial which said you should install pyinstaller first. …

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