gendef(1) General Commands Manual gendef(1)
NAME
gendef - DLL export extractor
SYNOPSIS
gendef [options] <DLL>
DESCRIPTION
gendef dumps DLL export information from 32- and 64-bit Windows executables (respectively PE32 and PE32+ executables).
OPTIONS
- Dump to stdout
-h, --help
Briefly describe the syntax and options.
-a, --assume-stdcall
Assume functions with ambiguous calling conventions use stdcall.
-I, --include-def-path <path>
Add additional search paths in which to look for hint .def files.
-f, --no-forward-output
Don't output forwarders.
OUTPUT
By default gendef writes the DLL export information to a file named after the DLL, replacing .dll with .def.
KNOWN ISSUES
For 32-bit DLLs, gendef cannot detect if a function with no return value (void) exported by a DLL uses stdcall or cdecl. Two workarounds
are available: either use the "-a" option to force stdcall calling conventions, or generate .def files for any DLLs the DLL you're inter-
ested in depends upon. gendef will read other .def files found in the working directory to determine the calling convention in use.
64-bit DLLs are not affected, since they only use a single calling convention.
SEE ALSO
genidl(1)
AUTHORS
gendef was written by Kai Tietz and Jonathan Yong of the MinGW-w64 project.
This manual page was written by Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>, based on information provided with the program and in the project's wiki, for
the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
gendef Oct 6, 2011 gendef(1)