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revolution 30 May 2006, 02:23

The example was only intended as a template, you need to fill in all the real import ordinals with proper values. DLLX was there to show how to import other DLL's, the ordinals I used were simply random numbers. You need to know all the ordinal numbers for COREDLL.DLL so that a real app might be written.

Passing arguments is in registers R0-R3. But need to check what happens if more than 4 values are required.

The exit code is already there:

Code:

ldmia sp!,{r4-r11,pc}

It restores the saved registers and loads PC with the previous LR.

30 May 2006, 02:23

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vid 30 May 2006, 06:17

you can find out specific ordinal by disassembling, but it seems full list can be only obtained from winCE sources, which seem to be located only within "platform builder" tool, which seems to be very hard to get.

btw, could you explain why the brackets must be in "ldr pc,[lr]" ?

30 May 2006, 06:17

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revolution 30 May 2006, 12:54

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could you explain why the brackets must be in "ldr pc,[lr]"

LDR is used to get values from memory into registers. If you want to copy the contents of LR to PC then use mov pc,lr. The brackets come from the ARM syntax and is standard. We even use it in x86 (mov eax,[ebx]).

30 May 2006, 12:54

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vid 30 May 2006, 13:02

so i should properly return with "mov pc, lr"?

That means my "ldr pc,[lr]" caused crash or what, but CE didn't display message?

30 May 2006, 13:02

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revolution 30 May 2006, 19:26

Use a debugger if you want to watch what is happening. Otherwise, if you don't have one handy, get a "print" routine working then do lots of printing of values to the screen to see where things are going. Once you build up your experience with the ARM language you should quickly get the hang of things.

30 May 2006, 19:26

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vid 30 May 2006, 21:02

there is no default console on CE Sad

anyway, i will tru to play with it further...

30 May 2006, 21:02

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vid 31 May 2006, 14:36

some basic for win32 can be found here, from what i have read, i suppose winCE uses same numbers. unfortunately i don't know ARM syntax enough to create window and everything,

[edit]
link is not interesting anymore

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31 May 2006, 14:36

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revolution 31 May 2006, 16:33

That link shows the Win32 x86 ordinals. You can get these from any x86 debugger or PE viewer. Are the ordinals really the same in WinCE? That seems unlikely since WinCE has much less functionality than even Win95.

31 May 2006, 16:33

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vid 31 May 2006, 18:32

okay, here is list of imports for ordinals from 80000000h to 8001000h, in that order, as IDA showed them.

http://student.fiit.stuba.sk/~mocko04/TOSSOFF/ce_ordinals.txt

PS: if you have problem calculating the ordinal, here is the formula:
(IDA_address - 17000h)/4 + 80000001h
[edit] corrected [/edit]

IDA_address is one shown of left. Someone could convert this to display just lower word of resulting ordinal, of even make FASM inlcude file, like:

Code:

SystemStarted             = 80000000h
InitializeCriticalSection = 80000001h
DeleteCriticalSection     = 80000002h
...

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31 May 2006, 18:32

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vid 31 May 2006, 23:35

looking at the ROM dump, it seems that COREDLL does have export names. all api names are there.

but ordinals are still nicer and more hacky Wink

31 May 2006, 23:35

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revolution 01 Jun 2006, 03:06

Using ordinals makes the file smaller, an important consideration in the small RAM of the devices running WinCE. I guess it depends on ones own preferences.

I think the include files equates is the most satisfying way to use the ordinals, less chance for mistakes in the code.

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MazeGen 01 Jun 2006, 07:35

vid, could you reduce the looong link using BB code [url=your_link]link_description[/url]?

01 Jun 2006, 07:35

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vid 01 Jun 2006, 07:42

done

01 Jun 2006, 07:42

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vid 01 Jun 2006, 07:46

revolution: could you try to write example which just calls "MessageBoxW" and then exits? Alternatively you can try "ExitThread" API (AFAIK, there are threads instead of processes on wince)?

pleeeeaaaaaaseeeeeee
Wink

01 Jun 2006, 07:46

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revolution 01 Jun 2006, 11:18

vid wrote:

could you try to write example which just calls "MessageBoxW" and then exits?

Here is my first try. I cannot test it, I'm running blind with WinCE, so that is up to you to report back here with results Wink

If changes are needed to make it work then don't forget to post them here for everyone else to try. When we can get this working then I will include it as an example in the download package.

Code:

        format  PE GUI
        entry   Start

section '.text' data code readable writeable executable

Start:
        mov     r0,0                    ;window owner (NULL)
        add     r1,pc,Text-$-8          ;the text
        add     r2,pc,Caption-$-8       ;the caption
        mov     r3,0                    ;style (MB_OK)
        ldr     pc,[pc,MessageBoxW-$-8] ;display message and exit

data import

        dw      0,0,0,RVA core_name,RVA core_imports
        dw      0,0,0,0,0

core_imports:
MessageBoxW     dw      0x80000359
                dw      0

core_name       db      'COREDLL.DLL',0

                align   4

end data

Text            du      'Hello WinCE world',0
Caption         du      'ARM small PE',0

align 4

01 Jun 2006, 11:18

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vid 01 Jun 2006, 12:28

can't test now (i am in school and don't have emulator right now)
could you explain "crypty" things like

Code:

add     r1,pc,Text-$-8
ldr     pc,[pc,MessageBoxW-$-8] ;display message and exit

i don't understand why r1 = PC+label-$-8
if PC always points to next instruction, then -4 would be comprehendable.

and wouldn't be "mov r1,label" enough, why not?

about the call and exit - here i am totally confused :]

thanks, when i'll be on my computer i will test it

01 Jun 2006, 12:28

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vid 01 Jun 2006, 14:09

GREAAAAT here it is:

Code:

        format  PE GUI
        entry   Start 

section '.text' data code readable writeable executable

Start:
        mov     r0,0                    ;window owner (NULL) 
        add     r1,pc,Text-$-8          ;the text 
        add     r2,pc,Caption-$-8       ;the caption 
        mov     r3,0                    ;style (MB_OK) 
        ldr     pc,[pc,MessageBoxW-$-8] ;display message and exit 

data import 

        dw      RVA core_data,0,0,RVA core_name,RVA core_imports
        dw      0,0,0,0,0 

core_data:
                dw      0x8000035A
                dw      0 


core_imports:
MessageBoxW     dw      0x8000035A
                dw      0 

core_name       db      'COREDLL.DLL',0 

                align   4 

end data 

Text            du      'Hello WinCE world',0 
Caption         du      'ARM small PE',0 

align 4

The core_data part was missing in imports, and MessageBoxW is 35A, not 359.

now please explain those instructions a bit.

01 Jun 2006, 14:09

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revolution 01 Jun 2006, 14:16

vid wrote:

could you explain "crypty" things

In ARM mode PC is always current instruction+8, in THUMB mode it is +4. MOV r1,label won't work because 'label' is is too big to fit into one instruction (we only get 8 bits to encode any constant with one instruction), so using PC relative addressing is very important with ARM.

'ldr pc,[pc,MessageBoxW-$-8]' will load PC with the value stored at MessageBoxW (the imported function) thus branching to the value it finds there for the next instruction. The return address is still in LR (we never altered it) so when MessageBoxW 'returns' with mov pc.lr it goes back to the originating OS function that started the process, thus ending our application. At least that is the theory for it all. Without testing I can't be sure that is what will happen, but it seems reasonable.

NOTE: If our application was much larger then MessageBoxW might be too far{1} from PC to use relative addressing, in which case we have to store the address of MessageBoxW in a literal pool near the PC and load the address from there and subsequently load again the final destination into PC. That code looks something like this:

Code:

MBox:
ldr r12,[pc] ;now R12=MessageBoxW
ldr pc,[r12] ;now branch to imported function
dw MessageBoxW

Which is called by 'bl MBox' or just 'b MBox' if we don't need the link. The branch destination (MBox) can be +-32Meg bytes from the current PC.

{1}For LDR 'too far' means more than +-4095 bytes from PC. For ADD 'too far' means not encodeable with 8 significant bits or less. See the ARM manual for instruction encoding of immediate values, that will help you understand why such coding techniques are needed.

01 Jun 2006, 14:16

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revolution 01 Jun 2006, 14:29

http://student.fiit.stuba.sk/~mocko04/TOSSOFF/ce_ordinals.txt wrote:

.idata:00017D64 IMPORT MessageBoxW'

vid wrote:

(IDA_address - 17000h)/4 + 80000000h

vid wrote:

MessageBoxW is 35A, not 359.

Hmm, what went wrong there? Smile

01 Jun 2006, 14:29

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vid 01 Jun 2006, 14:39

revolution wrote:

Hmm, what went wrong there?

oh, i thought % counter for "times" starts with 0, but it starts with 1. So it +1 each time, i will correct it.

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01 Jun 2006, 14:39

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