The Elftoolchain Project

Table of Contents

• Description
• Project Documentation
• Tracking Ongoing Development
• Downloading Released Software
• Copyright and License
• Developer Community
• Reporting Bugs
• Additional Information

Description

This software implements essential compilation tools and libraries for:

• managing program objects conforming to the ELF object format, and
• for managing DWARF debugging information in ELF objects.

The project currently implements the following utilities and libraries:

Name	Description
ar	Archive manager.
addr2line	Debug tool.
brandelf	Manage the ELF brand on executables.
c++filt	Translate encoded symbols.
elfcopy	Copy and translate between object formats.
elfdump	Diagnostic tool.
findtextrel	Find undesired text relocations.
libdwarf	DWARF access library.
libelf	ELF access library.
mcs	Manage comment sections.
nm	List symbols in an ELF object.
ranlib	Add archive symbol tables to an archive.
readelf	Display ELF information.
size	List object sizes.
strings	Extract printable strings.
strip	Discard information from ELF objects.

Project Documentation

• Release notes for released versions of this software are present in the file RELEASE-NOTES in the current directory.
• The file INSTALL in the current directory contains instructions on building and installing this software.
• Reference documentation in the form of manual pages is provided for the utilities and libraries developed by the project.
• Additional tutorial documentation is present in the documentation directory.

Tracking Ongoing Development

The project uses subversion for its version control system.

The subversion branch for the current set of sources may be accessed at the following URL:

https://sourceforge.net/p/elftoolchain/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/

The project's source tree may be checked out from its repository by using the svn checkout command:

% svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/elftoolchain/code/trunk

Checked-out sources may be kept upto-date by running svn update inside the source directory:

% svn update

Instructions on building and installing the software are given in the file INSTALL in the current directory.

Downloading Released Software

Released versions of the project's software may also be downloaded from SourceForge's file release system.

Copyright and License

This code is copyright its authors, and is distributed under the BSD License.

Developer Community

The project's developers may be contacted using the mailing list: <[email protected]>.

Reporting Bugs

Please use our bug tracker for viewing existing bug reports and for submitting new bug reports.

Additional Information

Additional information about the project may be found on the project website.