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Export from MinGW OSDN repo.

TODO: add "build-aux" submodule so it can be built from this tree.

Plans: None, other than making it compile without external deps.

PEXPORTS 0.47

Anders Norlander anorland@hem2.passagen.se URL: http://hem2.passagen.se/anorland/

Hacked by Paul.Sokolovsky@technologist.com URL: http://www.is.lg.ua/~paul/devel/binutils.html

Hacked by Tor Lillqvist tml@iki.fi

Hacked by Keith Marshall keithmarshall@users.sourceforge.net

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PEXPORTS is a program to extract exported symbols from a PE image (executable). It can perform a simple check on the size of the arguments of the exported functions, provided there is a header with prototypes for the functions. This is useful when you want the decorated function names for functions using the stdcall calling convention. GCC is used to do the preprocessing so it must be in your path.

Note that the Windows version uses ';' as path separator, while if built for Cygwin (or *nix) it uses ':'.

Command line options:

    -h <header> parse header
    -o print function ordinals
    -p <preprocessor> set preprocessor
    -v verbose mode

Header files are searched for in the following directories:

Current directory
Directories in C_INCLUDE_PATH
Directories in CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH

NOTE: The header parser is very primitive, and might be of questionable usefulness. It only tries to find function prototypes and check the number of arguments a function expects. It is NOT a complete C parser, there are probably many conditions when it will fail (especially complex parameter types), although I it works fine for me. Please do not report bugs, but feel free to send patches.

RELEASE 0.47

Eliminate Microsoft style typedef obfuscation.
Correct a further potential segmentation fault, resulting from overflow when computing 32-bit offset differences, which are then applied to 64-bit pointers.

RELEASE 0.46

Corrects two potential segmentation fault bugs.
Now supports building "out-of-source", to facilitate parallel builds for differing hosts; (verified for mingw32, 32-bit and 64-bit linux).
Now uses the GNU (autoconf managed) build procedure; run configure before make, when building, ("in-source" or "out-of-source").

RELEASE 0.45

Incorporate patches from 0.44-1-mingw32 release
Reinstate binary distribution for mingw32 host only; (distributed source is host-agnostic).

RELEASE 0.44

Handle also 64-bit executables. Make it work also if built as 64-bit code. Remove all gcc -Wall warnings. Make it compilable also with MSVC. Disable Wow64 file system redirection when running as a 32-bit process on 64-bit Windows. Distribute just sources.

RELEASE 0.43

There were bug which led to wrong subcategorizing of symbols as code/data. I thought it was fixed in version on the site, but it turns out that almost year there was wrong version. I greatly apologize to everyone whom it cause problems and confusion.

RELEASE 0.42

Data/non-data symbols are now distinguished.

RELEASE 0.41

The header parser now accepts all kinds of parameters.

RELEASE 0.4

Function pointer parameters are now handled
Handling of function attributes improved
It is no longer always necessary to include windows.h for headers that required it but did not include it themselves.

RELEASE 0.3

Completely rewritten parser (the previous one was very bad). It is now possible to generate .DEF files for windows system dlls (kernel32,user32,gdi32,shell32 etc)
Enhanced symbol handling (symbols are sorted in a tree).

RELEASE 0.2

Fixed bug with unnamed parameters that are pointers.
Extra whitespace is no longer printed
Binary versions available for mingw32 and cygwin32

RELEASE 0.1

Initial release. Pexports, Copyright (C) 1998 Anders Norlander This program has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see COPYING for details.

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