dumpbinGUI

dumpbinGUI
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Last Updated November 8, 2003

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dumpbinGUI is a GUI version of Microsoft's dumpbin command-line tool. Like its command-line cousin, dumpbinGUI invokes link.exe with the /DUMP option, and various other options specified at runtime.

dumpbinCMH is a shell context menu handler that invokes dumpbinGUI for associated file types.

Both modules require Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later.

dumpbinGUI

You can start dumpbinGUI from the command line, or from the Start menu, or from dumpbinCMH. If you start dumpbinGUI from the command line, you can specify additional arguments documented for dumpbin.

Once dumpbinGUI is started, you can load binary files by selecting them in the File | Open dialog, or by dragging them from the Shell (Windows Explorer, the Desktop, etc.). All of dumpbin's flags can be selected from dumpbinGUI's View menu.

Like dumpbin, dumpbinGUI must find MSVC's link.exe tool at runtime. If you see a linkage error, you might have to add the tool's directory to your PATH.

Please note, as documented in Q145937 , the command line version of dumpbin fails on long filenames with spaces. This problem has been fixed in dumpbinGUI.

The following MSDN pages have helpful information about dumpbin.

DUMPBIN Command Line

DUMPBIN Options

INFO: Examples of DUMPBIN Output

Microsoft Portable Executable and Common Object File Format Specification

HOWTO: Comparing Binary Images of Same Project Builds

HOWTO: Create 32-bit Import Libraries Without .OBJs or Source

HOWTO: Determine Default Libraries for an .OBJ Object File

HOWTO: Link with the Correct C Run-Time (CRT) Library

HOWTO: View Exported Functions in a DLL

HOWTO: Work Around Bugs in Template Libraries

Interpreting Executable Base Addresses

PRB: DUMPBIN Displays Cumulative Data for Multiple Arguments

Using COFF-Format Information or DLL Exports

Using DUMPBIN to View Decorated Names

dumpbinCMH

The context menu handler is initially registered for .exe, .dll, .ocx, .lib, and .obj files. Simply right-click one of these files from the Shell, and select dumpbinGUI from the context menu.

You can select Associate from the context menu to change the file types associated with dumpbinCMH.

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