Saturday, August 22, 2009

Using Hex Editor to Make aMule work on Windows 9x/ME

I successfully compiled aMule for Windows. My own aMule binary worked fine on Windows XP and Windows Vista. But it failed on Windows ME with an error pop-up:


The AMULE.EXE file is linked to missing export
KERNEL32.DLL:SetFilePointerEx.

I searched Yahoo! for a solution to this problem using these keywords: missing export kernel32.dll setfilepointerex. I was led to this webpage. It is said that SetFilePointerEx can be replaced with SetFilePointer on Windows 98/ME. Rather than fixing it from the source level, I resorted to a hex editor to quickly fix the problem.


I downloaded XVI and opened amule.exe. I searched for the text string "SetFilePointerEx" and overwrote the ending "Ex" with hex strings "00 00".


aMule started alright. I hope it functions without a problem.


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