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tundrwd - 2006-06-14 3:41 PM
Could someone create a quick guide/tutorial on porting PPC apps to HPC/Pro?
I see info, but it's scattered over several threads, and over many replies to same or other threads. Something along the lines of:
1. Where are the "extra" DLLs?
2. Where to install DLLs (same dir as app, or in \Windows, etc.)
3. What strings to search for and what the replacement value is when hexediting (I'd like an explanation of what it is that's being changed, so I can feel comfortable I'm changing the right thing).
4. Other utilities, apps, etc. that assist in getting these programs over.
I've got LOTS of PPC apps for my Ipaq, many have a MIPS CAB file, that could be ported over. Even a nice mapping program that supports GPS. (I've connected my Garmin GPS to my MBPro 800 and communicated with it via GarmapCE - so I know the concept should work for anything that communicates via serial, or can be used serial-usb. Maybe even the usb-serial 232 drivers for MIPS would work).
Anyway, I'd like to start seeing what I can assist porting over, but I think it would be helpful to have one consolidated "sticky" article that could be added to over time to assist myself and others in porting apps.
Thanks.
1
) my site...
(not linked on its main page yet
should do it now
let me know if you can't find the link on the forum
)
2
) anywhere but i generally recommend app dir... as that avoids some of the possible conflicts
(but only proper hexediting will avoid ALL of them
)
3
) now now why didn't i finish the tutorial yet. anyway on hpc pro no strings to search for
(didn't see any yet
). that is mainly ce.net and sometimes hpc2000. all the hexedit you need to do is OS version rewriting and execheck will do it for you on the device itself... maybe sometimes you can hexedit the app to call another dll name. as easy as rewriting a word in a word processor
4
) execheck
(get the executabilitycheck200.exe from that mips211.zip
), and there was another cool thing
(execheck on hpc pro will not show some of the dlls when pressing rewrite dll name
) that shows every dependency.. need to find it again and then post it.
(it is a hacked utility itself, was for ppc2000 i think. or was it peinfo for pspc?
)
+1. read the readme in the mips211.zip
gives you some tips specific of hpc pro hacking
don't get your hopes up very high, hpc pro is much worse than hpc2000 regarding hacking
(amount of hackable programs and degree of usabilty of successfully hacked apps
) but there are a few nice apps that work quite well. outstanding example is netfront 3.0. also going to try and get the pdf reader posted soon.
Edited by cmonex 2006-07-03 11:02 PM
