Retrieving exported symbols from a dll

Retrieving exported symbols from a dll

[Erik Leunissen]

I want a list of symbols that are exported from a dll (pei-i386 format). 
My first inclination was to look for an option to dlltool or objdump 
that is specifically aimed for that purpose, but did not find it.

Therefore, I tend to revert to doing "objdump -x foo.dll" and scan the 
output using a home grown recipe. However, that is not nearly as 
straightforward as what I was looking for.

Am I right to start from "objdump -x foo.dll", or is there something 
more straightforward?

Thanks in advance,

Erik Leunissen
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Re: Retrieving exported symbols from a dll

[Brian Dessent]

Erik Leunissen wrote:

> I want a list of symbols that are exported from a dll (pei-i386 format).
> My first inclination was to look for an option to dlltool or objdump
> that is specifically aimed for that purpose, but did not find it.
> 
> Therefore, I tend to revert to doing "objdump -x foo.dll" and scan the
> output using a home grown recipe. However, that is not nearly as
> straightforward as what I was looking for.
> 
> Am I right to start from "objdump -x foo.dll", or is there something
> more straightforward?

It's not exactly on-topic for this list but the mingw project has a
(GPL) utility 'pexports' which does exactly this.  Its output is a list
of the exports of the DLL, in .DEF file format.

Brian

RE: Retrieving exported symbols from a dll

[Danny Smith]

> From Erik Leunissen
> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 1:37 AM
> 
> I want a list of symbols that are exported from a dll 
> (pei-i386 format). 
> My first inclination was to look for an option to dlltool or objdump 
> that is specifically aimed for that purpose, but did not find it.
> 
> Therefore, I tend to revert to doing "objdump -x foo.dll" and 
> scan the 
> output using a home grown recipe. However, that is not nearly as 
> straightforward as what I was looking for.
> 

There is a program called pedump, source published here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/03/PE2/
that does the trick.

There are mingw32-built win32 binaries of above availiable on net via a
Google search.

Even if you don't want the code, Matt Pietrekk's article is worth a read
anyway if you are interested in PE format.

Danny
 

Re: Retrieving exported symbols from a dll

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:36:30PM +0200, Erik Leunissen wrote:
>I want a list of symbols that are exported from a dll (pei-i386 format). 
>My first inclination was to look for an option to dlltool or objdump 
>that is specifically aimed for that purpose, but did not find it.
>
>Therefore, I tend to revert to doing "objdump -x foo.dll" and scan the 
>output using a home grown recipe. However, that is not nearly as 
>straightforward as what I was looking for.
>
>Am I right to start from "objdump -x foo.dll", or is there something 
>more straightforward?

How about "objdump -p" ?  The Ordinal/Name Pointer Table seems to list
what you want.

cgf