Is there a program to decompile Delphi

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Someone just sent me a decompile of a program into C   It was a very good decompile  producing nice  mostly readabe C code  if you overlook the fact that none of the variables or functions had a human-readable name  that mostly looked like it would actually compile   There was one big problem  though   I happen to know that the program he was decompiling was written in Delphi  which is full of concepts that are difficult to translate into C   But I was really impressed by the decompiler s output  and it made me wonder   Is there anything that can do that for Delphi   The best decompiling tool I ve seen for Delphi is DeDe   It can do a lot of things  but it doesn t even try to produce Object Pascal code as its output  and it hasn t been updated since Delphi 6   Is there anything better out there

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You can use IDR it is a great program to decompile Delphi  it is updated to the current Delphi versions and it has a lot of features

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I don t think there are any machine code decompilers that produce Pascal code  Most  Delphi decompilers  parse form and RTTI data  but do not actually decompile the machine code  I can only recommend using something like DeDe  or similar software  to extract symbol information in combination with a C decompiler  then translate the decompiled C code to Delphi  there are many source code converters out there

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Here s a list   http   delphi about com od devutilities a decompiling 3 htm  and this page mentions some more   http   www program-transformation org Transform DelphiDecompilers    I ve used DeDe on occasion  but it s not really all that powerfull  and it s not up-to-date with current Delphi versions  latest version it supports is Delphi 7 I believe

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Languages like Delphi  C and C   Compile to processor-native machine code  and the output executables have little or no metadata in them  This is in contrast with Java or  Net  which compile to object-oriented platform-independent bytecode  which retains the names of methods  method parameters  classes and namespaces  and other metadata    So there is a lot less useful decompiling that can be done on Delphi or C code  However  Delphi typically has embedded form data for any form in the project  generated by the  R   dfm line   and it also has metadata on all published properties  so a Delphi-specific tool would be able to extract this information

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Languages like Delphi  C and C   Compile to processor-native machine code  and the output executables have little or no metadata in them  This is in contrast with Java or  Net  which compile to object-oriented platform-independent bytecode  which retains the names of methods  method parameters  classes and namespaces  and other metadata    So there is a lot less useful decompiling that can be done on Delphi or C code  However  Delphi typically has embedded form data for any form in the project  generated by the  R   dfm line   and it also has metadata on all published properties  so a Delphi-specific tool would be able to extract this information

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Languages like Delphi  C and C   Compile to processor-native machine code  and the output executables have little or no metadata in them  This is in contrast with Java or  Net  which compile to object-oriented platform-independent bytecode  which retains the names of methods  method parameters  classes and namespaces  and other metadata    So there is a lot less useful decompiling that can be done on Delphi or C code  However  Delphi typically has embedded form data for any form in the project  generated by the  R   dfm line   and it also has metadata on all published properties  so a Delphi-specific tool would be able to extract this information

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Here s a list   http   delphi about com od devutilities a decompiling 3 htm  and this page mentions some more   http   www program-transformation org Transform DelphiDecompilers    I ve used DeDe on occasion  but it s not really all that powerfull  and it s not up-to-date with current Delphi versions  latest version it supports is Delphi 7 I believe

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Here s a list   http   delphi about com od devutilities a decompiling 3 htm  and this page mentions some more   http   www program-transformation org Transform DelphiDecompilers    I ve used DeDe on occasion  but it s not really all that powerfull  and it s not up-to-date with current Delphi versions  latest version it supports is Delphi 7 I believe

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I don t think there are any machine code decompilers that produce Pascal code  Most  Delphi decompilers  parse form and RTTI data  but do not actually decompile the machine code  I can only recommend using something like DeDe  or similar software  to extract symbol information in combination with a C decompiler  then translate the decompiled C code to Delphi  there are many source code converters out there

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Languages like Delphi  C and C   Compile to processor-native machine code  and the output executables have little or no metadata in them  This is in contrast with Java or  Net  which compile to object-oriented platform-independent bytecode  which retains the names of methods  method parameters  classes and namespaces  and other metadata    So there is a lot less useful decompiling that can be done on Delphi or C code  However  Delphi typically has embedded form data for any form in the project  generated by the  R   dfm line   and it also has metadata on all published properties  so a Delphi-specific tool would be able to extract this information

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Here s a list   http   delphi about com od devutilities a decompiling 3 htm  and this page mentions some more   http   www program-transformation org Transform DelphiDecompilers    I ve used DeDe on occasion  but it s not really all that powerfull  and it s not up-to-date with current Delphi versions  latest version it supports is Delphi 7 I believe

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You can use IDR it is a great program to decompile Delphi  it is updated to the current Delphi versions and it has a lot of features

User · Answer

I don t think there are any machine code decompilers that produce Pascal code  Most  Delphi decompilers  parse form and RTTI data  but do not actually decompile the machine code  I can only recommend using something like DeDe  or similar software  to extract symbol information in combination with a C decompiler  then translate the decompiled C code to Delphi  there are many source code converters out there

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I don t think there are any machine code decompilers that produce Pascal code  Most  Delphi decompilers  parse form and RTTI data  but do not actually decompile the machine code  I can only recommend using something like DeDe  or similar software  to extract symbol information in combination with a C decompiler  then translate the decompiled C code to Delphi  there are many source code converters out there

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