JPEXS Free Flash Decompiler

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Open Source Flash SWF decompiler and editor. Extract resources, convert SWF to FLA, edit ActionScript, replace images, sounds, texts and fonts. Various output formats available. Works with Java on Windows, Linux and macOS.

Application description and features

For information about using the software, list of features, etc., visit FFDec Wiki.

Free-Decompiler.com website

In the past (before 2018), we were using free-decompiler.com domain as homepage and GitHub for the source code, We've now moved all information (except the issue tracker) to GitHub.

Download application

For downloading the app, see latest release. Older versions and nightly builds are available at the releases section

How to install

See installation section of the wiki

Source code

How to get the source

You can make a local copy of the sources with the following command:

git clone https://github.com/jindrapetrik/jpexs-decompiler.git

This assumes you have git installed on your system.

Branches

Git source control manager supports multiple code branches. We use two main branches.

• master - for released "stable" versions
• dev - for newest changes from developers - "nightly" version is released from this branch

You can switch to dev branch with following git command:

git checkout dev

GIT recommended

It is recommended to have GIT commandline executables installed. Building script uses GIT to include revision number into the binary. (For Windows, you must enable Git in windows command line during installation.)

Netbeans project

Source code contains Netbeans Project so you can open it in Netbeans IDE. Then you can use standard actions like Run, Build, Debug, Clean and Build in the IDE. Other specific tasks can be executed via menu on build.xml (see Ant part)

Ant

If you do not have Netbeans, you can build source code also with Apache Ant. After installing Ant it is good to put it into your PATH variable. Open up commandline and navigate to sources directory. To run application, execute task "run" by entering this command:

ant run

To only build, execute build task:

ant build

Building libraries

There are few libraries which need to be built too. These libraries are placed in "libsrc" directory.

• FFDec_lib - core of decompilation, SWF parsing, exporting This library is built automatically with main project, but can be build also separately with its own Ant script.
• jpacker - used for compression of JavaScript Canvas scripts (Netbeans/Ant project)
• jpproxy - proxy part of FFDec (Netbeans/Ant project)
• jsyntaxpane - code editor (Netbeans/Apache Maven project)
• LZMA - used for SWF compression (Netbeans/Ant project)
• nellymoser - used for Nelly Moser sounds decoding (Netbeans/Ant project)
• Swf2Exe - Stub for "Save to EXE" feature (Delphi 7 Project)
• ttf - used for TTF font export (Netbeans/Ant project)
• gnujpdf - used for PDF export (Netbeans/Ant project)

Docker

We have Dockerfile for headless running for not needing to install Java or FFDec locally. (Original script by Mahdi Lazraq)

Build

docker build -t ffdec .

Usage

FFDec CLI is the entrypoint, so you can pass arguments directly:

docker run --rm -v ./input:/work/input -v ./output:/work/output ffdec [args]

Change log

All notable changes are listed in the file CHANGELOG.md

Deployment

Nightly builds

When a commit is pushed/merged into dev branch, a new prerelease version is created automatically by GitHub actions CI. These prerelease versions are called nightly builds. On releasing a new nightly build, the previous nightly build is removed.

Stable versions

A new stable version is created automatically by the GitHub Actions CI when marking a revision in master branch with a tag in format versionx.y.z.

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Versioning

Versions are in format x.y.z, for example 9.1.2. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Nightly builds have additional suffix _nightlyN where N is number which increments with every (automatic) nightly release and does not depend on the x.y.z numbers. (This means nightly number is NOT reset to 0 when releasing stable) Older nightly builds are NOT available through git tags.

Authors

The decompiler was originally written by Jindra Petřík also known as JPEXS. The application was made in Czech Republic.

Developers

• JPEXS - leader, development of the decompiler, website main admin, github account admin, organization
• honfika - development of the decompiler
• Paolo Cancedda - former developer
• ...other pushers on GitHub or Google Code

Translators

• Jaume Badiella Aguilera - catalan translation
• Capasha - swedish translation
• 王晨旭 (Chenxu Wang), 晓之车, 安安, Liushui, 老biu - chinese translation
• focus - russian translation
• honfika - hungarian translation
• kalip - italian translation
• Krock - german translation
• Laurent LOUVET - french translation
• MaGiC - portuguese translation
• martinkoza - polish translation
• Osman ÖZ - turkish translation
• pepka - ukrainian and dutch translation
• poxyran - spanish translation
• realmaster42, alimsoftware - portuguese-brasil translation
• Rtsjx - chinese translation
• koiru - japanese translation
• J. Kramer - dutch translation
• Andrew Poženel - slovenian translation
• GitHub Copilot (Claude AI) - german, slovak translation

Contact

If you want to report a problem or request new feature, use our issue tracker at https://www.free-decompiler.com/flash/issues

You should see Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) in wiki before. Also see Known problems list in wiki

Email contact

Emergency contact to JPEXS developer is jindra.petrik@gmail.com. But we prefer Issue tracker contact.

Licenses + Acknowledgments

Application

FFDec Application is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 (GPL-3.0-or-later) licence, see the license.txt. It uses modified code of these libraries:

• JSyntaxPane (Code editor) - Apache License 2.0

And links also these libraries:

• Java Native Access - JNA (Registry association, Process memory reading) - LGPL
• Insubstantial (Substance Look and Feel, Flamingo Ribbon component) - Revised BSD
• javactivex (Flash Player ActiveX embedding) - LGPLv3
• flashdebugger library (Debugging ActionScript) - LGPLv3
• FFDec Library (LGPLv3) - see below

Application uses also some icons of the Silk icons pack, Silk companion 1, FatCow icons pack and Aha-Soft icons pack.

For EXE launchers we use Launch5j - MIT.

Library

See library README for more info about FFDec library.