#! perl # Fake a PE/COFF header, forcing Windows to load and interpret a perl script. open IN, (my $name = shift) or die "Syntax: pl2exe file.pl\n"; $name =~ s/\.pl$//; $name .= '.exe'; open (OUT, ">$name") or die "can\'t write to $name: $!\n"; binmode OUT; # because we want to be in control print OUT "MZ(<<'EXE_STUFF') # -*-Perl-*-\015\012"; print OUT "Here comes offset 60 .....\015\012"; # The DWORD at offset 60 holds the offset of the IMAGE_NT_HEADERS struct. # This stuff is in winnt.h. print OUT pack ("L", 64); my $code_size = 512; # actually the size of the entire # code section, which in this case contains # data as well; rounded up to a multiple of 512 # Construct the IMAGE_NT_HEADERS structure. my $headers = "PE\0\0"; # Portable Executable signature $headers .= pack ('SSLLLSS', # the IMAGE_FILE_HEADER substructure 0x14c, # for Intel I386 1, # number of sections 874806772, # time-date stamp (whatever) 0,0, # uniteresting fields 224, # size of the IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER 0x010f # random flags: 0xa18e(?) for a DLL ); $headers .= pack ('SCCL9S6L4SSL6', # IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADERS substruct 0x010b, # 0x0107 would be a ROM image 1,0, # linker version maj.min (I guess that's us) $code_size, 0,0, # size of initialized/un- data 0x1000, # RVA of entry point # (the RVA is the address when loaded, # relative to the image base) 0x1000, # RVA of start of code section 0, # RVA of data section, if there were one 0x400000, # image base 0x1000, # section alignment 512, # file alignment 4, 0, # OS version maj.min 0, 0, # user-defined fields (whatever) 4, 0, # subsystem version (???) 0, # reserved zero 0x2000, # size of image 512, # size of headers 0, # checksum; ignored 3, # 3=console app; 2=GUI app 0, # obsolete field 0x1000, # size of stack reserve 0x1000, # size of stack commit 0x100000, # size of heap reserve 0, # size of heap commit 0, # another obsolete field 16 # the number or RVA/size pairs to follow ); $headers .= pack ('L32', # 16 (RVA,size) pairs locating certain # important image structures; the ones # we don't have are left zero 0,0, 0x1100, 195, # import directory 0,0,0,0,0,0, 0x10f8, 8, # relocation table (empty, but needed) 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 ); print OUT $headers; # We need to describe our one section. my $section_header = pack ('a8L8', '.perl', # section name 464, # raw data size 0x1000, # section begin RVA 512, # rounded-up data size 512, # offset in file 0,0,0, # whatever 0xe0000060, # flags ); print OUT $section_header; print OUT "\015\012\015\012"; print OUT "-------------that was the IMAGE_NT_HEADERS struct-------------"; print OUT "\015\012------------------------\015\012"; print OUT "--------Now comes the code (at offset 512, if you please)-----"; print OUT "\015\012\015\012"; # Next comes the code. # It performs fixups, prepends "perl -x " to the command line, # launches perl, and returns perl's exit status. print OUT pack ("H*", "b8cc114000833dcc1140000074168b1085d27d06"); print OUT pack ("H*", "01500483c004ff0283c00483380075eaa1481140"); print OUT pack ("H*", "00ffd089c389c731c0b9f7fffffffcf2ae89f829"); print OUT pack ("H*", "d883e1fc01ccbec311400089e7b908000000f3a4"); print OUT pack ("H*", "89de89c1f3a489e383ec7cb91b00000089e731c0"); print OUT pack ("H*", "f3ab895c2404c74424284400000089e083c02889"); print OUT pack ("H*", "44242083c04489442424a140114000ffd021c075"); print OUT pack ("H*", "046a64eb258b4424446aff50a14c114000ffd021"); print OUT pack ("H*", "c074046a65eb0f8b4424446a665450a150114000"); print OUT pack ("H*", "ffd0a144114000ffd0"); print OUT "\015\012\015\012"; print OUT "-------here's the data, at file offset 760: -------"; print OUT "\015\012\015\012"; # Print out a dummy relocation table. # The code is not relocatable--it must be loaded at 0x400000. # But to allow programs to load it with LoadLibrary() and access # its resources, the file must contain this table. print OUT pack ('LL', 0x1000,8); # The import table. Contains RVAs, names, and a dollop of nulls. # (we import 5 functions from KERNEL32.DLL) print OUT pack ('L5', 0x1128, 0,0, 0x1158, 0x1140); print OUT pack ('L5', 0,0,0,0,0); print OUT pack ('L6', 0x1166, 0x1178, 0x1186, 0x1198, 0x11ae, 0); # Not sure if we really need to do this twice, but why argue: print OUT pack ('L6', 0x1166, 0x1178, 0x1186, 0x1198, 0x11ae, 0); # Gee it would be nice if C knew how to align things... print OUT "KERNEL32.DLL\0\0"; print OUT "\0\0CreateProcessA\0\0"; print OUT "\0\0ExitProcess\0"; print OUT "\0\0GetCommandLineA\0"; print OUT "\0\0WaitForSingleObject\0"; print OUT "\0\0GetExitCodeProcess\0"; # Our initialized data: print OUT "perl -x \0"; # align 4 print OUT pack ('L*', 0); # Let Perl know we're done. We no longer care about CRLF. print OUT "\nEXE_STUFF\nif 0;\n\n"; $_ = ; unless ($_ =~ /^\#!.*perl/ ) { print OUT "#!perl\n"; } print OUT $_, ; close IN; close OUT; chmod 0755, $name;