reading dlls

[sarah]

Hi All,

Is there anyway to read the contents of a dll? I.e in vbscript, xml, javascript, using html, or any other way.

If anyone has any idea or can point me in the right direction - great!

Thanks in advance!
Luv
Sarah

[oracleguy]

Dlls are complied files from one programming language or another. Like VB, C++, etc.

In order to "read" them you'd have to decompile them. Which is extremely difficult and usually illegal.

[sarah]

ok, how do I decompile it? The problem I am having is I need to use this dll for verification, but my Host is running Linux, and the Host has confirmed that dll's cant be used on Linux boxes. So now I am stuck.

If there was any way of decompiling the dll, I could then use the data in it for a flat text file or a database, and then I can use php to query the database.

Would this still be illegal? Even though the dll is provided by an external company and I pay this company for the regular dll update.

I tried to ask the providing company but their reply was its a dll we cant decompile it.

If anyone can still help but in a legal way - thanks

Sarah

[Nightfire]

:confused: No matter what you do, you can't run a DLL file as a txt file or anything, it needs to be a DLL....

I'm sure DLL's can be used on Linux, but your host has disabled them for a reason - security no doubt.

What is it you're trying to do?

[garfield_101]

well, if what you need is only to view it then i suggest why dont you just installed the microsoft visual studio wherein there is a dependency walker installed that comes along with installing visual basic and visual c++, maybe that's what you are talking of...

[joh6nn]

Resource Hacker (http://www.users.on.net/johnson/resourcehacker/): this tool has a bunch of uses, one of which is reading some of the information stored in DLLs. it can't read all DLLs, and it can't read all the information in DLLs, but it's a start, at least.

[sarah]

Hi, thanks for your replies - jus been stressin maself out over this.

Thanks John - I'll give that a try.