Recover perl file from .exe

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks,

My harddisk is crashed some days ago and I lost my source code of my application but having the exe which compiled with PerlAPP version 9.2.

Can you give me some help to decompiled it or recover it from *.exe?

Thanks in advance

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Re: Recover perl file from .exe by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 29, 2016 at 09:07 UTC
You can try Super Search for PerlApp - there are many threads on how to recover the original source code from various versions of it.	[reply]
Re: Recover perl file from .exe by stevieb (Canon) on Jul 29, 2016 at 12:03 UTC
This should be a lesson; start putting your source code into a repository of some sort. Learn what revision control is, and how to use git or hg (Mercurial) and sign up for a free account on Github or BitBucket. If your software is proprietary, you'll have to pay a small fee to use such a site, otherwise, set up a server internal to you. There are many other revision control systems available, but those two (particularly git/github) are widely used and reliable.	[reply]
Re^2: Recover perl file from .exe by Anonymous Monk on Jul 29, 2016 at 13:33 UTC
Yes, I can avoid this in future But now I need a source code for my application Is there any chance for it?	[reply]
Re^3: Recover perl file from .exe by Marshall (Canon) on Jul 29, 2016 at 17:25 UTC
I followed the recommendation from Corion and found this node Help recovering some source code from activestate perlapp 5.3.0 that has a bunch of what appear to be useful links. I had the same problem many years ago and wound up giving up and recovered most of my source code another way. This is a bummer of a problem and wish you luck! I lost 3 HD's in a once in a 100 year power event, even had actual smoke! Luckily nothing aside from the computers actually burned. Multiple copies locally on multiple computers may not save you - backup needs to be off site.	[reply]
Re^3: Recover perl file from .exe by stevieb (Canon) on Jul 29, 2016 at 13:35 UTC
Did you read the other comments that state exactly where to look?	[reply]
Re: Recover perl file from .exe by Anonymous Monk on Jul 29, 2016 at 09:05 UTC
Sure, activestate, makers of perlapp	[reply]