feat(relinker): write the output of a Windows executable without standard handles to anyps5.log

A --windows-gui build started from Explorer, or any Windows executable
started without a standard output or error handle, lost everything it
printed: the entry stub's messages, the libraries' stdout and stderr,
uncaught exception messages and crash reports.

Before it enters its directory or loads a library, the entry stub now
checks the standard output and error handles, and gives each missing one
anyps5.log beside the executable. The C runtime of the libraries it then
loads adopts the file. Executables started with handles are unchanged,
and one that cannot create the file starts as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Doston Abdullayev 2026-10-11 10:02:26 +05:00 committed by danzaio
parent 5fe4bebec6
commit ab3e926058
4 changed files with 56 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -100,6 +100,9 @@ WindowsEntryStub WindowsEntryStubBuilder::Build(const std::uint32_t dataRva, con
const auto argumentCount = reserve(4);
const auto wideArguments = reserve(8);
const auto shellHandle = reserve(8);
const auto logHandle = reserve(8);
const std::u16string logFileName = u"anyps5.log";
const auto logName = addWideString(logFileName);
const auto shellLibrary = addString("shell32.dll");
const auto parseArguments = addString("CommandLineToArgvW");
const auto handles = reserve(libraries.size() * 8);
@ -325,6 +328,48 @@ WindowsEntryStub WindowsEntryStubBuilder::Build(const std::uint32_t dataRva, con
code.PatchBranch(converted, code.GetRva());
};
const auto logMissingHandle = [&](const std::uint32_t standardHandle) {
const auto units = CheckedRva(logFileName.size() + 1);
code.Emit({0xb9});
code.U32(standardHandle);
call("GetStdHandle");
code.Emit({0x48, 0x85, 0xc0});
const auto missing = code.Branch({0x0f, 0x84});
code.Emit({0x48, 0x83, 0xf8, 0xff});
const auto present = code.Branch({0x0f, 0x85});
code.PatchBranch(missing, code.GetRva());
code.Rip({0x48, 0x8b, 0x05}, logHandle);
code.Emit({0x48, 0x85, 0xc0});
const auto opened = code.Branch({0x0f, 0x85});
code.Emit({0x4c, 0x89, 0xe0, 0x48, 0x29, 0xd8, 0x48, 0x05});
code.U32(units * 2);
code.Emit({0x48, 0x3d});
code.U32(PathCapacity * 2);
const auto tooLong = code.Branch({0x0f, 0x87});
code.Emit({0x4c, 0x89, 0xe7});
code.Rip({0x48, 0x8d, 0x35}, logName);
code.Emit({0xb9});
code.U32(units);
code.Emit({0x66, 0xf3, 0xa5});
code.Rip({0x48, 0x8d, 0x0d}, modulePath);
code.Emit({0xba, 0, 0, 0, 0x40, 0x41, 0xb8, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0x45, 0x31, 0xc9});
code.Emit({0x48, 0xc7, 0x44, 0x24, 0x20, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0x48, 0xc7, 0x44, 0x24, 0x28, 0x80, 0, 0, 0, 0x48, 0xc7, 0x44, 0x24, 0x30, 0, 0, 0, 0});
call("CreateFileW");
code.Emit({0x66, 0x41, 0xc7, 0x04, 0x24, 0x00, 0x00});
code.Emit({0x48, 0x83, 0xf8, 0xff});
const auto failed = code.Branch({0x0f, 0x84});
code.Rip({0x48, 0x89, 0x05}, logHandle);
code.PatchBranch(opened, code.GetRva());
code.Emit({0xb9});
code.U32(standardHandle);
code.Emit({0x48, 0x89, 0xc2});
call("SetStdHandle");
const auto done = code.GetRva();
code.PatchBranch(present, done);
code.PatchBranch(tooLong, done);
code.PatchBranch(failed, done);
};
code.Emit({0x53, 0x55, 0x56, 0x57, 0x41, 0x54, 0x48, 0x83, 0xec, 0x60});
code.Emit({0x31, 0xc9});
code.Rip({0x48, 0x8d, 0x15}, programPath);
@ -351,6 +396,8 @@ WindowsEntryStub WindowsEntryStubBuilder::Build(const std::uint32_t dataRva, con
code.Rip({0x0f, 0x85}, findSeparator);
code.Emit({0x49, 0x83, 0xc4, 0x02});
code.Emit({0x66, 0x41, 0xc7, 0x04, 0x24, 0x00, 0x00});
logMissingHandle(0xfffffff5u);
logMissingHandle(0xfffffff4u);
code.Rip({0x48, 0x8d, 0x0d}, modulePath);
call("SetCurrentDirectoryW");
requireNonzero(directoryError, 0xc000000du);

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@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
namespace Elfpatcher::Windows {
WindowsImports WindowsImportBuilder::Build(const std::uint32_t sectionRva) const {
const std::vector<std::string> names = {"ExitProcess", "FormatMessageA", "FreeLibrary", "GetCommandLineW", "GetFileAttributesW", "GetLastError", "GetModuleFileNameW", "GetModuleHandleA", "GetModuleHandleW", "GetProcAddress", "GetStdHandle", "GetSystemDirectoryW", "LoadLibraryExA", "LoadLibraryExW", "LocalFree", "MultiByteToWideChar", "RaiseException", "SetCurrentDirectoryW", "VirtualAlloc", "WideCharToMultiByte", "WriteFile", "lstrcatA", "lstrcmpA", "lstrcmpiA", "lstrcpyA", "lstrlenA"};
const std::vector<std::string> names = {"CreateFileW", "ExitProcess", "FormatMessageA", "FreeLibrary", "GetCommandLineW", "GetFileAttributesW", "GetLastError", "GetModuleFileNameW", "GetModuleHandleA", "GetModuleHandleW", "GetProcAddress", "GetStdHandle", "GetSystemDirectoryW", "LoadLibraryExA", "LoadLibraryExW", "LocalFree", "MultiByteToWideChar", "RaiseException", "SetCurrentDirectoryW", "SetStdHandle", "VirtualAlloc", "WideCharToMultiByte", "WriteFile", "lstrcatA", "lstrcmpA", "lstrcmpiA", "lstrcpyA", "lstrlenA"};
WindowsImports result{{".idata", sectionRva, SectionRead | SectionWrite | 0x40u, std::vector<std::uint8_t>(40)}, {sectionRva, 40}, {}, {}};
auto& bytes = result.Section.Data;
const auto lookupOffset = bytes.size();

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@ -384,19 +384,22 @@ def main():
assert not output.exists()
if os.name == 'nt':
for name, owner, symbol, expected in [
('missing-symbol-gui', 'a.prx', 'absent#A#B', 0xc0000139),
('missing-dependency-gui', 'missing.prx', 'shared#A#B', 0xc0000135)]:
for name, owner, symbol, expected, message in [
('missing-symbol-gui', 'a.prx', 'absent#A#B', 0xc0000139, 'unresolved ELF import absent'),
('missing-dependency-gui', 'missing.prx', 'shared#A#B', 0xc0000135, 'Failed to load module')]:
result, output = convert(name, owner, symbol, windows_gui=True)
assert result.returncode == 0, result.stderr
run_status = exit_code_without_standard_handles(output)
assert run_status == expected, (name, hex(run_status), hex(expected))
log = output.parent / 'anyps5.log'
assert log.is_file() and message in log.read_text(errors='replace'), (name, log.exists())
result, output = convert('missing-symbol', 'a.prx', 'absent#A#B')
assert result.returncode == 0, result.stderr
if os.name == 'nt':
run = subprocess.run([str(output)], capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=30)
assert run.returncode != 0 and 'unresolved ELF import absent' in run.stderr, (run.returncode, run.stderr)
assert not (output.parent / 'anyps5.log').exists()
result, output = convert('wrong-provider', 'c.prx')
assert result.returncode == 0, result.stderr
if os.name == 'nt':

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@ -119,6 +119,8 @@ python3 tools/pad_input.py /tmp/anyps5-pad release
Run the helper in a second terminal. Commands are polled at most every 100 ms during controller reads and add to physical controller input. A press lasts 300 ms by default, starting when the application reads it, and releases automatically; `--hold-ms` accepts 1–5000 ms. Wait for the application to observe a release before sending another press. The file holds only the latest command; rapid commands can replace one another. Commands left over when the application first reads the controller are ignored. Without the environment variable, file input is disabled.
A Windows executable started without a standard output or error handle, such as a `--windows-gui` build started from Explorer, writes that output to `anyps5.log` beside it, replacing the previous run's file. Without write access to that directory it runs without the log.
### System fonts
Games that open the console's system font sets (`sceFontOpenFontSet`) need font files in an `anyps5-fonts/` directory beside the output executable; set `ANYPS5_SYSTEM_FONTS` to use another directory. Files dumped from the console are used under their own names (`SST-Roman.otf`, `SST-Bold.otf`, `SSTJpPro-Regular.otf`, ...). Without them, these openly licensed substitutes are used when present: `NotoSans-{Light,Regular,Medium,Bold}.ttf` and `NotoSans-{LightItalic,Italic,MediumItalic,BoldItalic}.ttf` (Latin and Vietnamese), `NotoSansMono-{Light,Regular,Medium,Bold}.ttf` (typewriter), `NotoSansThai-{Light,Regular,Medium,Bold}.ttf` (Thai) and `NotoSansCJK-{Light,Regular,Medium,Bold}.ttc` (Japanese and Chinese). Without either, opening a system font set fails and the game shows no text in those fonts.