horsicq/XELFViewer

Clarify the scope

greenrobot opened this issue · 7 comments

greenrobot commented

I was trying to open a static library (.a) and 0.05 (latest release as of today) it just said "It's not a valid file". It's Linux ELF so I was surprised. Also, I did not see description what exactly the app is supporting.

horsicq commented

Are you sure that it is ELF? Could you please open your file in any HEX viewer and see the first 4 bytes? It should be '.ELF'.
You could use Detect It Easy open file -> HEX
https://github.com/horsicq/DIE-engine/releases/tag/3.06

greenrobot commented

A static library (.a) is an archive and thus has a different file header. I take it that this is not supported. Maybe update the readme?

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horsicq commented

Ok. Thanks a lot for testing. I will take a look.

horsicq commented

You could unpack your archive with an archive manager(For Windows you can use 7zip).
Then you can open every *.o file with XELFViewer.

greenrobot commented

Or, XELFViewercould read the archive 😁 (feature request). E.g. "merge" the data of the .o files.

For inspiration also: https://apps.kde.org/de/elf-dissector/ I love the idea of treemaps for elf/libs. But I had trouble with KDE on Ubuntu...

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horsicq commented

Thanks for the good idea! I will add support of ".a" files in the next version. :)

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horsicq commented

For inspiration also: https://apps.kde.org/de/elf-dissector/

It looks just super! I should steal some ideas for my projects. Sure steal like an Artist :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_Like_an_Artist

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