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Is there a way to read the contents of .so file without loading it?

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Is there any way to read the content of a .SO(shared objects) file without loading it?

My use-case scenario is:

  1. I have a .so file on windows. I need to query for some methods whether they are present in .so or not.
  2. To know all the classes in a .so file.
  3. Given a class name need to find all the methods on this class.

Note: I can easily do these things on DLL. Also I am working on windows so I can't load a .SO file.

Thanks

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Guruji Avatar asked Oct 16 '13 05:10

Guruji

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Instead, they're just placed in an appropriate folder and used automatically by other programs via Linux's dynamic link loader. However, you might be able to read the SO file as a text file by opening it in a text editor like Leafpad, gedit, KWrite, or Geany if you're on Linux, or Notepad++ on Windows.

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To screen: readelf -a <file>

To save the output, dump it into a file. For example, I'm learning about the Python RPi.GPIO module on Raspberry Pi, which is stored in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/RPi, so I run: readelf -a GPIO.so > ~/gpio.so.out

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TCAllen07 Avatar answered Oct 04 '22 18:10

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