PEREAD.EXE Does not work on Windows 10 64 bit

[electric-socket]

is some sort of problem when running peread in that it does not work. I use SUBST to assign drive letters to directories on my computer so I don't have to use long path names. Here are the relevant assignments:

P:: => C:\lazarus\fpc\3.2.0\bin\x86_64-win64 (This is where the Pascal compiler is located)
V:: => C:\Users\Paul\Documents\Programming\pev-0.80-win32 (location of PE tools)

Tried locating both on subst drives:
V:>dir readpe*
Volume in drive V is Windows
Volume Serial Number is 09C8-AE90

Directory of V:\

01/09/2017 09:38 AM 108,224 readpe.exe
1 File(s) 108,224 bytes
0 Dir(s) 271,177,908,224 bytes free

V:>dir p:ppc*
Volume in drive P is Windows
Volume Serial Number is 09C8-AE90

Directory of P:\

07/07/2020 03:59 PM 3,262,464 ppcx64.exe
1 File(s) 3,262,464 bytes
0 Dir(s) 271,177,351,168 bytes free

V:>readpe.exe p:ppcx64.exe
ERROR [-15]: open() failed (No such file or directory)

V:>dir C:\lazarus\fpc\3.2.0\bin\x86_64-win64\ppc*
Volume in drive C is Windows
Volume Serial Number is 09C8-AE90

Directory of C:\lazarus\fpc\3.2.0\bin\x86_64-win64

07/07/2020 03:59 PM 3,262,464 ppcx64.exe
1 File(s) 3,262,464 bytes
0 Dir(s) 271,180,337,152 bytes free

V:>readpe.exe C:\lazarus\fpc\3.2.0\bin\x86_64-win64\ppcx64.exe
assertion "g_format != NULL" failed: file "output.c", line 242, function: output_open_document_with_name
1 [main] readpe 21540 cygwin_exception::open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to readpe.exe.stackdump

V:>

I'd say that qualifies as an error.

Paul Robinson [email protected] or [email protected]
"The lessons of history teach us - if they teach us anything - that no one learns the lessons that history teaches us."

[merces]

Thanks for the report, Paul! We'll investigate.

[jweyrich]

@electric-socket did you try building pev from source to check if the problem persists? I'll take a look.

[merces]

It is likely fixed in v0.81. I've downloaded Lazarus IDE (from where I assume this ppcx64.exe binary is from) and couldn't reproduce the problem:

C:\Users\admin\Desktop\pev-0.81-win>subst
P:\: => C:\lazarus\fpc\3.2.0\bin\x86_64-win64\

C:\Users\admin\Desktop\pev-0.81-win>readpe.exe -h dos p:\ppcx64.exe
DOS Header
    Magic number:                    0x5a4d (MZ)
    Bytes in last page:              144
    Pages in file:                   3
    Relocations:                     0
    Size of header in paragraphs:    4
    Minimum extra paragraphs:        0
    Maximum extra paragraphs:        65535
    Initial (relative) SS value:     0
    Initial SP value:                0xb8
    Initial IP value:                0
    Initial (relative) CS value:     0
    Address of relocation table:     0x40
    Overlay number:                  0
    OEM identifier:                  0
    OEM information:                 0
    PE header offset:                0x80

[GoGoOtaku]

I ran across assertion "g_format != NULL" failed: file "output.c", line 242, function: output_open_document_with_name
the other day. This happens when it finds a pe.conf that points to a plugin folder without any output libraries.
Gave me a major freakout since I thought I just released a broken version. I wanted to test my freshly installed system version from within my build directory (I have some test executables there). But I had run make clean before so the config file pointed to a directory without any plugin libraries.

I don't know if this was the error that had happened here but it seems likely since this is the same error message.
Frankly I will just add the text output to the executable for the next release. That way this at least doesn't happen if no output plugin is specified.