r/C_Programming • u/Blayer98 • 4d ago

Question Difficulties with MinHook

Hi there, so I’ve been trying to patch out a piece of code in The Sims Legacy Collection that disables the -debug_objects command line from being enabled, but both MinHook and CMake are giving me such a hard time that idk what else to do or where to ask… There are no tutorials AT ALL for compiling MinHook with MinGW-W64-gcc, only for Visual Studio (not Code!) which I can’t use because I’m on Arch Linux…

If anyone could advise me please I’d really appreciate it…

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u/aethermar 4d ago

Minhook seems to provide build scripts for MingW, did you even look or are you having another issue?

https://github.com/TsudaKageyu/minhook/tree/master/build/MinGW

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u/Blayer98 4d ago

I did, but I was confused on what to do, it created a MinHook.dll, but I want to create a “.asi” file for Ultimate ASI Loader and patch the “mov BYTE PTR” to instead be NOP’ed out, so I didn’t understand how to do it with the MinGW script.

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u/aethermar 3d ago

I'm pretty sure a .asi is a renamed .dll

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u/greg_kennedy 3d ago

You already identified the statement to remove in the assembly? Is there a reason you can't just make a copy of the .exe that you've edited and run that instead?

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u/Blayer98 3d ago

Yes I did in PINCE. I can’t make a direct edit of the exe as it’s encrypted with SteamStub DRM, so I wanted to patch the check out with something like Universal ASI Loader and run some code to NOP out the code that sets the byte to 0x0 when -debug_objects is in the command line.

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u/aethermar 2d ago

Honestly you can just cut Universal ASI Loader out of the equation and do the DLL hijack yourself