[hmfrh]

> As long as you do not cut across a variable or a function, you can export pretty much however you want, you don't have to follow the original object file boundaries.

Would it be possible to export basically the entire program at once and then slice off individual functions one by one?

Do you have any guides/examples of the

> Decompilation projects, by splitting a program into multiple object files and reimplementing these Ship of Theseus-style

style project?

[boricj]

> Would it be possible to export basically the entire program at once and then slice off individual functions one by one?

Yes. The exporters can handle whatever meaningful address selection you can throw at them, including multiple disjoint ranges within the same section. So you can keep carving holes inside your selection until nothing remains of the original program.

> Do you have any guides/examples of the Ship of Theseus-style style project?

Not quite. My own decompilation project is on a hiatus due to one version tracking session too many in a row, so I only have one article on this so far [1] and the way I've done it is a bit wonky.

Another user has recently started a decompilation project [2] with a better framework than I've used in that article, but no actual decompilation has taken place there yet. Incidentally, that would also make for a good modding framework, if one decides to not write functionally identical replacement code.

[1] https://boricj.net/tenchu1/2024/05/31/part-11.html (which is humorously titled "A modding framework powered by the tears of CS101 teachers")

[2] https://github.com/widberg/FUELDecompilation

[hmfrh]

> Yes. The exporters can handle whatever meaningful address selection you can throw at them, including multiple disjoint ranges within the same section. So you can keep carving holes inside your selection until nothing remains of the original program.

Will this also work without painstakingly reversing things in the binary, say in the case of a giant game executable?

If possible, I would be very interested in a simple tutorial that takes an arbitrary Windows executable, delinks it and replaces a single function, without all the extra steps necessary to run it on the PS1.

It might even be preferable if it worked with MingW, since I'm on Linux as well.