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Modding Smalltalk image

I have a third party program that was written with "Visual Smalltalk 3.1.0 Enterprise", as it is written in the ".image" resource in the exe.

My question is how can I modify some minor things of this program starting from this resource?

Solution

  • The .image section of the exe file contains a "Smalltalk image". This is not something you alter directly, it is generated by the Smalltalk Development Environment. The image contains both code (in IL form) and "live objects persisted to disk".

    The exe file is "just a loader", it starts the VM, loads the image into memory, and starts the application.