I have been looking everywhere and can't seem to find a .LUA decompiler. ( .lua's is one scripting language used for making WoW addons)

I have already tried LUADEC, but it does not seem to be working.
I got it from this website: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

Does anyone have a link to a working LUA decompiler?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Anyone know where I can get the decompiler?

[Saiket]

Lua code is written in plain text, unless someone encrypts and/or obfuscates it.

If by chance you are looking at Carbonite's source (encrypted and obfuscated), that's beyond the scope of what decompilers can do.

[Apoc]

Originally Posted by Saiket

Lua code is written in plain text, unless someone encrypts and/or obfuscates it.

If by chance you are looking at Carbonite's source (encrypted and obfuscated), that's beyond the scope of what decompilers can do.

Not true at all.

[Saiket]

Which part of it is untrue?

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Edit: Wait, I just considered you might be referring to precompiled bytecode, hahah. Yeah, I read this entirely the wrong way. That's what I get for writing addons in WoW's Lua for so long.

As for Carbonite though, what I said stands.

[Apoc]

Originally Posted by Saiket

Which part of it is untrue?

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Edit: Wait, I just considered you might be referring to precompiled bytecode, hahah. Yeah, I read this entirely the wrong way. That's what I get for writing addons in WoW's Lua for so long.

As for Carbonite though, what I said stands.

Again, not true at all.

The purpose of decompilers is to read the source code. Encrypted/obfuscated or not. Doing it with default values or not is a different story.

[Saiket]

I must admit, I've lost track of what we're disagreeing about.

The OP linked a Lua bytecode to source code decompiler. He then mentioned Lua used in addons, leading me to believe he is looking into addons. Addons cannot use Lua bytecode. Also, the most popular unreadable (encrypted) addon is Carbonite. Therefore I suggested that Carbonite can't be decompiled in the literal sense, since it is not compiled to begin with. Sure there are other ways to decrypt Carbonite's source, but LuaDec is not one of them.

Yes I am looking at carbonite. I can't seem to find a way to decompile it. I want to know how its server check works, when trying to unlock the full version.

I have not seen any other addons do this.

OK since I can not "decompile it" then how would I be able to access it, so I can see how it works?

Maybe what I am asking is, how does carbonite work!?

[Saiket]

If you read through its source carefully, it repeats a pattern like this:

z='[[Tons of encrypted stuff]]'; t={[[z gets decrypted and put in this table]]}; loadstring(table.concat(t));

Carbonite does most of the work for you; check out what gets sent to loadstring. This is only the tip of the iceberg though; the encryption is deeply recursive and the decrypted source has very little whitespace.

[SectorSeven]

Addons don't need decompiling

So how do I decrypt carbonite?

[Berryman]

Lua isn't compiled...

Originally Posted by evann

You're an idiot, if you don't know how to decrypt a small addon let alone one of the most "Encrypted" without actually being compiled addon, goodluck on your own, i don't think anyone will ever spoon feed you.

Then point me in the right direction, and don't immediately start flaming! I am trying to figure this out, and do know something about programming. I just am uneducated in the LUA language, and how it interfaces with WoW.

I know more about C++, HTML, CSS, most of the server related languages, and some older languages such as Turbo Pascal.


Where else can I get information on this subject?

Also, it seems that you don't know how to either considering you immediately flamed me. At least the other posters were helpful. And no I am not looking to be "Spoon Fed", but in fact trying to learn something.

[Saiket]

Check out [Only registered and activated users can see links. ], and then take a second look at the short pseudocode block I have a couple posts back. Play around with what gets sent to loadstring and you should get pretty far.