Re: How to execute a program from memory

From: Doublehp (doublehp_at_doublehp.org)
Date: 08/17/04 

Date: 17 Aug 2004 08:51:45 -0700

> Why not just use one of the variants of WinExec() or CreateProcess()?

because those func need either a file or a func to be executed .

> Just copying the contents of a Windows PE executable into memory does
> not make it ready to run. Are you resolving links to DLLs, and
> loading those as necessary? Are you performing all of the
> relocations, setting up the segment registers, allocating a virtual
> address space?

Many software can do so, like the proprietary Winzip selfextractor for
executables, or the GNU/UPX ...

What ever the requirements are, I need to run an executable from
memory.

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