C++ Decompiler - Developers

I need to find a C++ decompiler please and I need one urgently. It's not for any illegal purposes, I just need to recover my project, my hard drive corrupted and the only thing I had backed up was a compiled exe on disc...

Yeah no. Decompiling an exe will not bring back your project. It will give you something that looks like garbly gook. It will probably work, but it will not be your project.

You can't really decompile something back to its original source code, especially not as easy as opening a program => import => decompile. The most you will get is the program in its assembly form of its targeting archetecture.

You can do this, but it'd probably be something you can't recognize at all. Decompiling C++ is the process of first disassembling the program and then turning the resulting ASM into C++. It won't look like your code at all, unless your code was incredibly simple and no optimizations were used.

If it is a debug build, I could imagine that the code is mostly retrievable, apart from any pre-compile steps and possibly template meta-programming stuff.

Is it broken beyond repair? It's sometimes possible to retrieve data from broken disks

I would say you can get the data back using a live cd However i would guess you re-installed over it?

There was this one program that can help you retrieve things that were lost on your hard drive. Let me search for it. [editline]07:26PM[/editline] Found it. [img]http://static.piriform.com/pf/icon/rc_64.png[/img] [url]http://www.piriform.com/recuva[/url]

[QUOTE=Xion12;25143736]There was this one program that can help you retrieve things that were lost on your hard drive. Let me search for it. [editline]07:26PM[/editline] Found it. [img]http://static.piriform.com/pf/icon/rc_64.png[/img] [url]http://www.piriform.com/recuva[/url][/QUOTE] There's also photorec, but it's better suited for binary files than flat text files.

[QUOTE=Xion12;25143736]There was this one program that can help you retrieve things that were lost on your hard drive. Let me search for it. [editline]07:26PM[/editline] Found it. [img]http://static.piriform.com/pf/icon/rc_64.png[/img] [url]http://www.piriform.com/recuva[/url][/QUOTE] Recuva is awesome as long as filesystem information can still be extracted.