help: how to see library symbols

[Rostfrei]

Hello! Which tool can I use under win32 to see which symbols are linked in the to the libray someLib.lib. I can use "nm" utility under Linux (example: someLib.a). Is there some simmilar tool for MSVC constructed libraries? I use MSVC++ .NET 2003. Regards,

Rostfrei

[Waldermort]

Try using depends.exe, not sure if will look at a .lib file though, I know it works for .dlls

[Rostfrei]

Thank you for response waldermort and benjymous. I tried both tools and it looks like it's the same tool. One comes with .NET installation and another can be downloaded from net. Both were unsuccessful in my case. They work when I open some DLL but when I open LIB file, I get "Error: At least one file was not a 32-bit or 64-bit Windows module." Is there some other tool I can use? Regards,

Rostfrei

[Stephen Hewitt]

Depends.exe and other dependency walking tools will only show the imports and exports in a DLL or EXE; I don't believe this is what you're after. I think the tool you need is Dumpbin[^] which comes with Visual Studio. Using this you can examine the symbols and contents of LIB and OBJ files.

Steve

[Rostfrei]

That is exactly what I needed. For anybody else: for Dumpbin to work you need to put "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\bin" to the PATH and also "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\IDE" because Dumpbin needs mspdb71.dll to work. Thank you Stephen! Regards, Marko Kukovec