The goal of this project is to create BSD licensed implementations of essential compilation tools for the ELF object file format.
Implementation Status
| Tool | Description | Status | Owner | Repository Location | Comments
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| ar | Archiver | | kaiw | ar/ |
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| as | Assembler | | | |
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| brandelf | Set ELF brand | | | brandelf/ |
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| elfdump | Diagnostic tool | | kaiw | elfdump/ |
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| ld | Link editor | | jkoshy | |
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| nm | List symbols | | hglee | nm/ |
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| ranlib | Generate archive symbol table | | kaiw | (see ar(1) above) |
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| size | List object sizes | | samarunraj | size/ |
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| strings | Extract printable strings | | samarunraj | strings/ |
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| strip | Discard symbols from objects | | kaiw | (see elfcopy(1) below) |
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| Tool | Description | Status | Owner | Repository Location | Comments
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| addr2line | Debug tool | | kaiw | addr2line/ |
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| elfcopy | Copy and translate between formats | | kaiw | elfcopy/ |
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| objdump | Display object information | | | | Merge with elfdump?
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| readelf | Display ELF information | | kaiw | readelf/ |
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Libraries and API sets
| API Set | Description | Status | Owner | Repository Location | Comments
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| libdwarf | A library for parsing DWARF debug information | | kaiw | libdwarf/ | "pfgshield-freebsd" (email suppressed) notes that early versions of SGI's libdwarf library were released under a non-GPL'ed license.
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| libelf | A library for handling ELF objects | | jkoshy | libelf/ |
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| libelftc | Common code used by tools | | | libelftc/ |
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| "libmachinecode" | Machine/assembly code manipulation. | | | | For use in an optimizing linker, debugger and assember. See the NJ Toolkit below.
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Test Suites
| Name | Description | Status | Owner | Repository Location | Comments
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| libelf-test-suite | A TET based test suite for libelf | | jkoshy | libelf-test-suite/ |
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Project History
This work was originally a part of the FreeBSD Project; it has been moved to SourceForge.Net to encourage wider participation from the open-source developer community.
