Is there any way to decompile Linux .so?

Question

Is there any way to decompile Linux .so?

Predominate

Is the source not available for the library you are looking to reverse engineer? – Reminiscent

#1558870 #2169294 – Antivenin

There is. but I want to try it on some with no source to - just for fun...=) – Predominate

Answer 1

There are decompilers, but a decompiler might not emit code in the same language that the original program was written in.

There are also disassemblers, which will reassemble the machine code into assembly.

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The Decompilation Wiki may be a good source of additional information.

Reminiscent

Answer 2

You can disassemble the code with objdump(1) for example.

Deprecative