Reverse Engineering of Windows Distribution

[Markus Stenzel]

Product : Experimental BitTorrent Client (c)Bram Cohen
Modified: Eike Frost http://ei.kefro.st/projects/btclient/
License : MIT
Source  : Available (3.1-CVS-4, 3.2-1, 3.2.1b-1, 3.2.1b-2)

The Experimental BitTorrent is a GUI upgrade of the well known 
BitTorrent file swarming application (c)Bram Cohen and released under 
the MIT license.

Eike Frost modified the software to allow "bandwidth capping" to be 
selected from the GUI to allow ACK messages to pass the upstream during 
normal operation thus increasing overall efficiency.

However all versions mentioned above in the line starting with "Source" 
_DO NOT_ run on Linux. 3.1-CVS-3, 3.2-1 and 3.2.1b-1 produce error 
messages due to a few bugs handling the command line parameters.

The 3.2.1b-2 client DOES work on Linux but is running slowly and works 
for single files only. When working with "batch torrents" it routinely 
hangs during operation (even if it's not touched after it's launch)

The author Eike Frost doesn't offer the pre-3.1-CVS-3 source.

The windows version we have installed on Win32 is a pre 3-1-CVS-4 
version. Now guess what.. ;))

 > Technically it is possible, but it's not trivial, and seems like
 > a pretty bizarre thing to do if the author didn't intend it to
 > be used on Linux in the first place.  (Which we can infer from the
 > choice of distribution method.)

I hope the additional background info might make you giving a few little 
hints? *hopes*

   Markus

Peter Hansen wrote:
> Markus Stenzel wrote:
> 
>>I have a Python software for Windows, packed into a single exe file and
>>accompanied with a few dll and package files.
>>
>>Is there any way to reverse engineer this packet by extracting the
>>source files so they can be used on Linux/Unix? I have checked the exe
>>but it seems to be compressed by zlib.
>>
>>Some people on the mailing lists told my friend it's possible to get the
>>code once you can "unpack" the files from the exe.
> 
> 
> It seems likely that the source to this program would be available
> to you already, wouldn't it?  It *is* open source, right?
> 
> If it is, you can probably find the source on the web, or just
> contact the author for it.
> 
> If it is not, you are probably violating your license agreement in
> trying to do this.  Did it come with a license?
> 
> Technically it is possible, but it's not trivial, and seems like
> a pretty bizarre thing to do if the author didn't intend it to
> be used on Linux in the first place.  (Which we can infer from the
> choice of distribution method.)
> 
> -Peter