analyze-objects 0.3.0

Contains command line tools and python functions to search symbols in object files (.o, .obj).

analyze_objects contains command line tools that analyze compile object files (.o, .obj). It is a wrapper around the platform specific tools nm (linux) or dumpbin (windows).

Currently, it consists of the single shell command find_symbols.

Installing

Install from pip:

python -m pip install analyze_objects

Usage

If binaries of installed python packages are added to the PATH, you can call find_symbols directly from the shell:

find_symbols

Otherwise, it can be invoked using python:

python -m analyze_objects.find_symbols

Examples

Use the following command to search the object files foo.o and bar.o for undefined symbols that match the regular expression "foo":

find_symbols --undef_regex foo foo.o bar.o

Using this command requires that nm (linux) or dumpbin (windows) are available in the PATH. If that is not the case, you can use the --nm_exe or --dumpbin_exe arguments to pass their location to find_symbols. For convenience, you may pass --store_config in addition to --nm_exe or --dumpbin_exe, so that this path will be used in all subsequent calls to find_symbols. The stored configuration can be cleared using --clear_config.

Use --def_regex instead of --undef_regex to search for defined symbols. It is possible to combine both arguments and search for both defined and undefined symbols.

The find_symbols command accepts an arbitrary number of object files. It is possible to use placeholders ** and * in the object file paths.