gef for windows

[guard-wait]

GEF+GDB version

GNU gdb (GDB) 10.2

Operating System

windows

Describe the issue you encountered

when I use gef by windows,I found that issue.So that I wonder if gef supports Windows?if can,what should I do?if not,can you solve this problem?

Do you read the docs and look at previously closed issues/PRs for similar cases?

No

Architecture impacted

• X86
• X64
• ARM
• ARM64
• MIPS
• MIPS64
• PPC
• PPC64
• RISCV

Describe your issue. Without a proper reproduction step-by-step, your issue will be ignored.

I don't know anything.Because I just want to do winpwn

Minimalist test case

Use this field for a minimal code to compile and spot the issue:

// compile with gcc -fPIE -pic -o my_issue.out my_issue.c
int main(){ return 0; }

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• Callstack
• Coredumps
• If possible and useful, please upload the binary

[hugsy]

Hi @guard-wait

Your error indicates a binary required for gef is missing. So it's a user setup problem, unrelated to gef.

Regarding support for Windows, GEF is aimed for Linux.
There is an embryo of support for Windows - and macOS too - but very limited.

You're welcome to try it, and improve if you can.

Thanks

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[wareya]

which fails to find the python interpreter because executables on windows can have a file extension. This is a gef problem and not a user setup problem. This isn't hard to fix:

def which(program: str) -> pathlib.Path:
    """Locate a command on the filesystem."""
    for path in os.environ["PATH"].split(os.pathsep):
        dirname = pathlib.Path(path)
        fpath = dirname / program
        if os.access(fpath, os.X_OK):
            return fpath

+    if platform.system() == "Windows" and not program.endswith(".exe"):
+        return which(program+".exe")

    raise FileNotFoundError(f"Missing file `{program}`")

After adding these lines I at least get gef to successfully load. However I get an encoding error and the command line prefix is (gdb) instead of gef.

vs WSL:

Trying to run an executable from here in windows results in the executable running normally and some errors that it's not an ELF executable (since, of course, it's a PE executable, not an ELF executable). If I run a program that does __builtin_trap(), I get something resembling gef's screen, but a lot of commands fail:

If I use the extra PE support script I get slightly more info but the screen is still full of kanji:

On WSL I get gef's UI, but it's bugged. I can't tell if it's because of my locale or not:

[hugsy]

Yes, that's definitely your locale settings.