General Delphi question

[Navas]

Hi to all, I'm a programmer of another language, but the EXE files in this language are easy to decompile, I wan't to know if I can make something like this on Delphi:

-Open an Exe file, created in the other language.
-Build a new Exe in Delphi, that includes the Exe of the other application a just makes a call to it.
-Build this Exe in an aplicattion written in Delphi.

Thanks a lot
Navas

 

[earlrainer]

you can include the exe in a resource file and compile it with your delphi exe.

there are a lot of articles on embedding other exe programs, wav files, etc in a res file on the net.

 

[Navas]

Thanks, can you point me to the right direction, i haven't use Delphi a lot.
And another question, can I compile a new Delphi EXE from a Delphi EXE.
Thanks
Luis

 

[earlrainer]

there is a good article on embedding exe in resource files at

http://www.delphi.about.com

I am not sure I understand your quetsion about compiling an exe from a delphi exe.

 

[Navas]

Ok, I will explain what i wan't to do:
I wan't to create a program, who will be abble to protect an EXE from the other programing language. What I want it's wrapper to the other EXE file, bu t I want to be abble to do it with any EXE, not just one. And I want to do it with an application created in Delphi, 'cause the other coputers doen't has the Delphi Program.
Thanks a lot for your time.
Luis

 

[TonHu]

This proposed 'solution' is not going to take you to any application-safety at all

Search google for 'dongle' and you will find a lot of software suppliers, that can deliver wrapper-apps that add hard- (dongle) or software based protection to your app(s). Most languages currently available have some kind of de-compiler, lurking around on the i-net, so protection will not be gained by wrapping an exe in the resources of another unprotected exe. Resources can easily be extracted from exe-files using the free tool ResHacker s-)

If you wrote something in some batch or scripting language (java, vbs) there are encryption tools available with most SDK's, or batchfile compilers from simtel.

HTH
TonHu