Windows API database

[Dan Kegel]

Dave Miller wrote:
> So for starters, we want something like this?  It doesn't look very
> impressive.  :)
> 
> http://home.ptd.net/~compsol/imported_dll.txt

Yes, but probably want to convert all filenames to
lower (or upper) case, and sort them alphabetically.

Next step is to take that data and turn it into a
graph or map of some sort.  Perhaps the same sort
of map I did to display Usenet connectivity of la.personals
years ago... here's the "map": http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~dank/la.personals/map.html
and here's the code: http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~dank/ftp/map/

> However, my system is by no means a clean install of WinXP home so most of
> thos DLLs probably don't belong to windows.

Yeah, you'll probably want to run this on a clean install sometime.
- Dan

> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Kegel [mailto:dank at kegel.com] 
> 
> Oh, ok.  Cross-referencing DLL imports and exports.
> 
> Yeah, that sounds like a job for a simple perl script.
> All you need to output is DLL name and what DLLs it imports from.
> Just generate a flat text file for starters, then
> later postprocess that into an ascii tree or graph.
> 
> 
> It's going to be a messy little graph, I bet.



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