HL mod decompile .dll !?!

[Paxthegreat]

me n a few freinds have been working on a Duke3D mod for half-life, and i've been left in charge of the coding side, anyway, last night i altered the ingame HUD, and when i compiled it, it was ... lame, so i wanted to fix it, but, then when i went to edit the source again, me pc went gay, and me entire project along with a few other files were deleted for some reason.

And now their aint another copy of the source anywhere, is it possible to decompile an older version of me .dll? i know what files need to be extracted, but is it possible. And how?, pls any help will be really appreciated.

otherwise a 2/3 months works gone down the drain

[Zaei]

Nope. You could decompile it to assembly... but that wouldnt help you much.

Z.

[Paxthegreat]

*sniff, sniff*

is their a way to convert it from assembly to c++?

cmon their must be some app that can do it, legal or otherwise

[parksie]

Nope, you can't go from asm to C++. There are many ways to represent the same instruction sequence in C++, and there's no way to decide which.

[Paxthegreat]

, so my works gone?!?, damn, me mates are gonna have me head now, i thought i could get it all working again, before anyone found out that its been deleted.

[Zaei]

Yeah, that is why backups are important =). Now, though, you can re-code all of that stuff you would never have touched again, and make it better =).

Z.

[Paxthegreat]

true, but ... so much time wasted, so much to do, theirs so much i will have to research again, coz i cant remember.

They should build an app to decompile dll's if this kinda thing happens.

, , , thx anyway

[parksie]

No point trying -- there's no real way to decompile it, unfortunately.

If you have a debug build it's more likely you'll be able to reconstruct the general structure of your DLL (from the debug symbols, which give you function prototypes, class layouts, etc.)