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Honestly, I have no idea if that’s something that is even logically possible. Computing data flow from procedural instructions is one of the holy grails of compiler optimization. Sure, there’s short segments that are easy to translate back, but a general app? Maybe, but I have 19 years of LabVIEW R&D experience with the compiler, and I’d be hard pressed to do it by hand, much less derive a general algorithm for automatic decompilation. 

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Pulling the VIs out of an EXE isn't the hard part.  In relatively recent versions of LabVIEW you can pull out VIs from an EXE.  I think the last version I did this on was 2015.  But the VIs are a binary blob with no block diagram, generally no front panel, but can be called as a subVI in the IDE.  And with the forward compatible run-time engine that means any LabVIEW 2017 EXE can have its VIs pulled out and ran in 2017 or newer.  I haven't tested this but I think it should work.  But as others have said, getting the source code out of an EXE is considered impossible.

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On 6/25/2019 at 3:07 PM, hooovahh said:

Pulling the VIs out of an EXE isn't the hard part.  In relatively recent versions of LabVIEW you can pull out VIs from an EXE.  I think the last version I did this on was 2015.  But the VIs are a binary blob with no block diagram, generally no front panel, but can be called as a subVI in the IDE.  And with the forward compatible run-time engine that means any LabVIEW 2017 EXE can have its VIs pulled out and ran in 2017 or newer.  I haven't tested this but I think it should work.  But as others have said, getting the source code out of an EXE is considered impossible.

Hi,

How can you do this (LV 2015)? I have lost some VIs I haven't touched for years so I don't really need their block diagrams.

Thanks in advance!

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1 hour ago, Lipko said:

How can you do this (LV 2015)?

Take a look at https://github.com/mefistotelis/pylabview

You will need 3rd Python and Pillow package:

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pip3 install pillow

After that you proceed as follows:

  1. Unpack the .exe into a separate directory (7-Zip unarchiver works fine for me).
  2. Take \.rsrc\RCDATA\2 file and put it near readRSRC.py.
  3. Run .\readRSRC.py -x -i ./2 in the command shell.
  4. Unpack 2_LVzp.bin to get your VIs.

You may also find this thread interesting to read: EXE back to buildable project

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4 hours ago, dadreamer said:

Take a look at https://github.com/mefistotelis/pylabview

You will need 3rd Python and Pillow package:

After that you proceed as follows:

  1. Unpack the .exe into a separate directory (7-Zip unarchiver works fine for me).
  2. Take \.rsrc\RCDATA\2 file and put it near readRSRC.py.
  3. Run .\readRSRC.py -x -i ./2 in the command shell.
  4. Unpack 2_LVzp.bin to get your VIs.

You may also find this thread interesting to read: EXE back to buildable project

Thank you!

I don't have experience with python and I'm stuck at point 3. I have Anaconda, I run the windows command prompt and started python (I see the >>>), I navigated to the plylabview folder (os.chdir), I think I have pillow (typed pip3 install to anaconda promt and it said something about I arelady have it), but no matter how I try to type in .\readRSRC.py -x -i ./2, I get inalid systax errors.
Tried  .\readRSRC.py -x -i ./2 in the anaconda promt too.

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Maybe then you'd have more luck trying in PowerShell (if available). Also try without preceding .\ symbols. As I have Python paths written into the PATH environment variable, I don't even need to launch Python's own shell, I just execute that command in common Windows shell and it works.

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