Any tool/software in windows for viewing ELF file format?

Question

There are lots of PE file browsers. Here is a list of good ones if you are interested:

PE File format viewers:

• PE Explorer http://www.pe-explorer.com/
• PE VIew: http://www.magma.ca/~wjr/
• PEBrowse Professional http://www.smidgeonsoft.prohosting.com/pebrowse-pro-file-viewer.html
• PE Browse Professional Interactive - http://www.smidgeonsoft.prohosting.com/pebrowse-pro-interactive-debugger.html

I'm still working on windows & I want to view the ELF files. Are there any tools? I'm googling but couldn't find any till now.

Solution 1

readelf and objdump are both excellent utilities if you are on a Unix box. Both are provided by Cygwin.

readelf will give you a good overview of the ELF header information, section headers. You can also use it to get relocation and symbol information. Overall, readelf can give greater detail on the contents of an ELF file.

objdump has some similar features to readelf, but also includes the ability to disassemble sections.

Solution 2

I like objdump. I think it comes with the Mingw and/or cygwin distributions.

Solution 3

I don't think it's quite what you're looking for, but it may still be useful - Agner Fog has an object file converter available here:

http://www.agner.org/optimize/#objconv

Solution 4

The project biew has been renamed into beye:

http://beye.sourceforge.net

Solution 5

I've used BIEW before

http://biew.sourceforge.net/

Apparently it can process ELF headers

Support for a-out, arch, coff-386, ELF, MZ, jvmclass, LMF, LE and LX, NE, NLM-386, PharLap, PE, RDOFF, SIS and SISX executable formats.

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Comments

[joveha]

Amen to that. Oh, and IDA Pro ain't half-bad either for looking at elf files ;)