bionic (1) gendef.1.gz

NAME

       gendef - DLL export extractor

SYNOPSIS

       gendef [options] <DLL>

DESCRIPTION

       gendef  dumps DLL export information from 32- and 64-bit Windows executables (respectively PE32 and PE32+
       executables).

OPTIONS

       -      Dump to stdout

       -h, --help
              Briefly describe the syntax and options.

       -a, --assume-stdcall
              Assume functions with ambiguous calling conventions use stdcall.

       -I, --include-def-path <path>
              Add additional search paths in which to look for hint .def files.

       -f, --no-forward-output
              Don't output forwarders.

OUTPUT

       By default gendef writes the DLL export information to a file named after the DLL,  replacing  .dll  with
       .def.

KNOWN ISSUES

       For  32-bit  DLLs,  gendef cannot detect if a function with no return value (void) exported by a DLL uses
       stdcall or cdecl. Two workarounds are available: either use the "-a"  option  to  force  stdcall  calling
       conventions,  or  generate .def files for any DLLs the DLL you're interested in depends upon. gendef will
       read other .def files found in the working directory to determine the calling convention in use.

       64-bit DLLs are not affected, since they only use a single calling convention.

SEE ALSO

       genidl(1)

AUTHORS

       gendef was written by Kai Tietz and Jonathan Yong of the MinGW-w64 project.

       This manual page was written by Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>, based  on  information  provided  with  the
       program and in the project's wiki, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).