xyproto / elfinfo

Utility for displaying which compiler was used for creating an ELF file + basic info

ELFinfo

Tiny program for emitting the most basic information about an ELF file.

Can detect the compiler used for compiling a given binary, even if it is stripped. The following languages/compilers are supported:

• GCC
• Clang
• FPC
• OCaml
• Go
• TCC (compiler name only, TCC does not store the version number in the executables)
• Rust (for stripped executables, only the compiler name and GCC version used for linking are available)
• GHC

Installation

For Go >=1.17:

go install github.com/xyproto/elfinfo@latest

Example usage

$ elfinfo sh
GCC 10.1.0

$ elfinfo -l /usr/bin/ls
/usr/bin/ls: stripped=true, compiler=GCC 9.2.1, static=false, byteorder=LE, machine=Advanced Micro Devices x86-64

Distro Packages

General info

• Version: 1.2.2
• Author: Alexander F. Rødseth <[e-mail]>
• License: BSD-3