The Elf Tool Chain Project

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Native BSD implementations of essential tools.

Tool	Description	Status	Owner	Repository Location	Comments
ar	Archiver	In CVS	kaiw	[http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/ar/ src/usr.bin/ar/]	Done
as	Assembler				Needs to support all Tier-1/2 CPUs: i386, amd64, sparc64, arm, powerpc, ia64, mips
elfdump	Diagnostic tool	[http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2007-03/msg00419.html Patch]	kaiw		Architecture independent.
ld	Link editor				Needs to support all Tier-1/2 CPUs.
nm	List symbols		hglee	[http://perforce.freebsd.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/user/hglee/projects/elftoolchain/src/usr.bin/nm //depot/user/hglee/projects/elftoolchain/src/usr.bin/nm/]
ranlib	Generate archive symbol table	In CVS	kaiw	(see ar(1) above)	Done
size	List object sizes	[http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2007-03/msg00549.html Patch]	samarunraj	[http://perforce.freebsd.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/user/samarunraj/elftoolchain/src/usr.bin/size //depot/user/samarunraj/elftoolchain/src/usr.bin/size/]
strings	Extract printable strings		samarunraj	[http://perforce.freebsd.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/user/samarunraj/elftoolchain/src/usr.bin/strings //depot/user/samarunraj/elftoolchain/src/usr.bin/strings/]
strip	Discard symbols from objects	[http://web.student.chalmers.se/~kaiw/patch/elfcopy-20070903.tgz Patch]	kaiw	[http://perforce.freebsd.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/user/kaiw/projects/bintools/src/usr.bin/elfcopy/ //depot/user/kaiw/projects/bintools/src/usr.bin/elfcopy/]	(Soc07 project)

Tool	Description	Status	Owner	Repository Location	Comments
addr2line	Debug tool
elfcopy	Copy and translate between formats	[http://web.student.chalmers.se/~kaiw/patch/elfcopy-20080227.tgz Patch]	kaiw	[http://perforce.freebsd.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/user/kaiw/projects/bintools/src/usr.bin/elfcopy/ //depot/user/kaiw/projects/bintools/src/usr.bin/elfcopy/]	Used by the ia64 build. (Soc07 project)
objdump	Display object information				Merge with elfdump? Used by the ia64 build
readelf	Display ELF information		samarunraj		Merge with elfdump?)

API Set	Description	Status	Owner	Repository Location	Comments
libdwarf	A library for parsing [http://dwarf.freestandards.org/ DWARF] debug information		jb	[http://perforce.freebsd.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/projects/dtrace/src/lib/libdwarf //depot/projects/dtrace/src/lib/libdwarf/]	“pfgshield-freebsd” (email suppressed) notes that early versions of [http://reality.sgiweb.org/davea/dwarf.html SGI's libdwarf library] were released under a non-GPL'ed license.
“libmachinecode”	Machine/assembly code manipulation.				For use in an optimizing linker, debugger and assember. See the NJ Toolkit below.