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Originally Posted by geek1011
Well, you would need the GNU binutils built for windows, which you can get through MinGW. You would also need tar and unzip, but you can use 7-zip for that. And for the hex editor, xxd is pretty comparable to wxHexEditor.
As for the do-able part, it depends on how much experience you have with software development, and how fast you can learn things. Just play around a bit, but be warned that an incorrect patch can brick your Kobo and need a SD card reimage. The strings are pretty safe to change, it is mainly function arguments which are easy to corrupt. You may want to use a Linux VM so you do not need to use Windows tools, and also practice modding other executables first to get an idea.
For learning, there was a thread about 2 months ago about how to make mods. That thread is pretty useful starting point. This is the kind of thing which you learn by doing.
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Yes, I remember looking at that thread and trying to make sense of objdump, but had to accept defeat and my own limitations.
I've been able to create and share a few css-type Kobo patches in nickel and libnickel.so.1.0.0 but I think that's going to have to remain my limit. Thanks for the reply, anyway.