GNU Binutils
The GNU Binary Utilities, or
binutils, is a collection of programming tools maintained by the GNU Project for working with executable code including assembly, linking and many other development operations.The tools are originally from Cygnus Solutions.
The tools are typically used along with other GNU tools such as GNU Compiler Collection, and the GNU Debugger.
Tools
The tools include:
elfutils
Ulrich Drepper wroteelfutils, to partially replace GNU Binutils, purely for Linux and with support only for ELF and DWARF. It distributes three libraries with it for programmatic access.
See also
- Binary File Descriptor library – GNU support for multiple executable file formats
- GNU Core Utilities – Collection of standard, Unix-based utilities
- GNU Debugger – Source-level debugger
- ldd (Unix) – Unix or Linux utility
- List of Unix commands
- LLVM – Compiler backend for multiple programming languages
- strace – Diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility for Linux
References
External links
- Official website
- The ELF Tool Chain Project : the BSD license similar project (mirror)