Microsoft equivalent of the nm command

Question

I've long used cygwin's nm command for all my .lib symbol debugging needs, but recently I thought about referring to it in a SO answer and realized that most Windows developers don't have cygwin installed.

So what is the Microsoft equivalent to nm, i.e., what command will list the symbols exported by a .lib file, the undefined symbols in the .lib, and so forth?

For the curious, a sample nm man page is here.

Intermix

Answer 1

Try dumpbin.exe.

MSDN dumpbin.exe reference.

Armlet

both links are dead :-( – Proprietress

yes, got it working. However, the MSDN documentation is next to worthless - a properly implemented --help argument could have superseeded it easily – Proprietress

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Answer 2

1. Run vcvarsall.bat which might present in your installed path of Microsoft Visual Studio. This sets environmental variable required for dumpbin.exe.

   D:>"D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\vcvarsall.bat" x86

2. Then use dumpbin.exe. For example dumpbin.exe /ALL <bin_file> gives all symbols.

Aggrieve

Answer 3

The nm command provides -C option, which shows demangled names. There is c++filt in Linux/MacOSX, provide nearly the same as -C for nm.

On Windows, there is dumpbin.exe, which is like nm on Linux. There is also undname on Windows, which is like c++filt on Linux: (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/decorated-names?view=msvc-170)

C:\>undname ?func1@a@@AAEXH@Z
Microsoft (R) C++ Name Undecorator
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Undecoration of :- "?func1@a@@AAEXH@Z"
is :- "private: void __thiscall a::func1(int)"

You may also need vswhere to locate where dumpbin.exe and undname.exe located.

Gertrudis