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Reverse Engineering Large Software Projects?
stalebread queries: "Me and a team of other students have been tasked with reverse engineering a massive C/C++ (mostly C) computer game of about half a million lines. We have most of the source, but no clue of how to approach a task of this magnitude. Anyone have suggestions of programs, or techniques we could use to understand the structure of the game?"
"Human capital"? What are you, an alien overlord of some sort?
Just because you have the code doesn't mean you know how the system is assembled and how all the components work together. "Reverse Engineering" is a pretty loosely defined, but if you take it literally, it's just that.. reversing the engineering process. From the description of the question, the poster is looking to take the finished product (the source for this game..) and move back up the high level design phase. This means analyzing the module interconnections, class hierarchy, and that sort of stuff. It doesn't necessarily mean they want to "port" or "compile" it.