KEXTLIBS(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					       KEXTLIBS(8)

NAME

     kextlibs -- find OSBundleLibraries needed by a kext

SYNOPSIS

     kextlibs [options] [--] kext ...

DESCRIPTION

     The kextlibs utility searches for library kexts that define symbols needed for linking by kext, printing their bundle identifiers and ver-
     sions to stdout.  If the kext has a multiple-architecture executable, libraries are resolved for each architecture.  If any symbols are not
     found, or are found in multiple libraries, the numbers of such symbols are printed to standard error after the library kext information for
     each architecture.

     A handy use of kextlibs is to run it with just the -xml flag and pipe the output to pbcopy(1); if the exit status is zero (indicating no
     undefined or multiply-defined symbols), you can open your kext's Info.plist file in a text editor and paste the library declarations over the
     OSBundleLibraries property.

     You can use kextlibs to find libraries for older releases of Mac OS X using the -repository option to specify an extensions folder to search
     other than the extensions directories for the root volume (although releases prior to Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) don't check for architec-
     ture-specific properties, so be sure to check the output and edit as needed).  If you don't explicitly specify a repository directory,
     kextlibs searches the root volume's /System/Library/Extensions and /Library/Extensions directories.

OPTIONS

     -h, -help
	      Print a help message describing each option flag and exit with a success result, regardless of any other options on the command
	      line.

     -all-symbols
	      Print reports on all symbols that remain undefined, all symbols that have been resolved in one library kext each, and all symbols
	      that have multiple definitions in different library kexts.  Equivalent to specifying all of -undef-symbols, -onedef-symbols, and
	      -multdef-symbols.  Normally only the number of missing and duplicate symbols is printed.

     -c, -compatible-versions
	      Print the compatible version rather than the current version.

     -multdef-symbols
	      Print all undefined symbols from kext found in more than one library kext, followed by those library kexts' bundle identifiers and
	      versions (or compatible versions if -compatible-versions was specified).	Normally only the number of multiply-defined symbols is
	      printed.

     -non-kpi
	      Search the compatibility kext, com.apple.kernel.6.0, rather than any of the com.apple.kpi.* system kexts.  Use of this option is not
	      recommended: The exact kernel component (mach, bsd, libkern, or iokit) cannot be determined, and the compatible version of
	      com.apple.kernel is locked to its current version, so kexts linking against it can only load against that exact version.

     -onedef-symbols
	      Print all undefined symbols from kext found in exactly one library kext, followed by that library kext's bundle identifier and ver-
	      sion (or compatible version if -compatible-versions was specified).  Normally nothing is printed about symbols that are found once.

     -r directory, -repository directory
	      Search directory for dependencies.  This option may be specified multiple times.	You can use this to get library declarations rela-
	      tive to a set of extensions other than those of the running system (such as for a different release of Mac OS X), or to include a
	      side directory of library kexts.	Note: If you specify a directory with this option, the system extensions folders are not implic-
	      itly searched.  See -system-extensions.

     -e, -system-extensions
	      Add /System/Library/Extensions and /Library/Extensions to the list of directories to search.  If you don't specify any directories
	      or kexts, this is used by default.

     -undef-symbols
	      Print all undefined symbols from kext that can't be found in any library kexts.  Normally only the number of symbols not found is
	      printed.

     -unsupported
	      Search unsupported library kexts for symbols (by default they are not searched).

     -v [0-6 | 0x####], -verbose [0-6 | 0x####]
	      Verbose mode; print information about program operation.	Higher levels of verbosity include all lower levels.  You can specify a
	      level from 0-6, or a hexadecimal log specification (as described in kext_logging(8)). For kextlibs, the decimal levels 1-6 generally
	      have little effect.

     -xml     Print an XML fragment to stdout suitable for copying and pasting directly into an Info.plist file.  This option prints information
	      about libraries to stdout, and then prints information about symbols to stderr. In XML mode, if the libraries for all architectures
	      are the same, only one set of OSBundleLibraries is printed; if any differ from any others, architecture-specific listings for all
	      architectures are printed (OSBundleLibraries_i386, OSBundleLibraries_x86_64, and so on).

     --       End of options.

FILES

     /System/Library/Extensions/  The standard system repository of kernel extensions.
     /Library/Extensions/	  The standard repository of non Apple kernel extensions.

DIAGNOSTICS

     The kextlibs utility exits with a status of 0 on completion if all undefined symbols are found exactly once; with a status of 1 if any unde-
     fined symbols remain, or with a status of 2 if any symbols are found in more than one library kext (whether or not any undefined symbols
     remain), and with another nonzero status on some other problem.

BUGS

     kextlibs uses a simple algorithm of string matching to resolve symbols, and does not apply any of the patching that the full link process
     does.  This can cause it to fail when searching for symbols in a kext built against an SDK for a prior release of Mac OS X than the one on
     which kextlibs is being used.  In such cases, you can run kextlibs against the Extensions folder of that prior release using the -repository
     option.

     Many single-letter options are inconsistent in meaning with (or directly contradictory to) the same letter options in other kext tools.

SEE ALSO

     kextutil(8), kextfind(8), kext_logging(8)

Darwin								 November 14, 2012							    Darwin