Microsoft equivalent of the nm command

Question

I've long used cygwin's nm command for all my .lib symbol debugging needs, but recently I thought about referring to it in a SO answer and realized that most Windows developers don't have cygwin installed.

So what is the Microsoft equivalent to nm, i.e., what command will list the symbols exported by a .lib file, the undefined symbols in the .lib, and so forth?

For the curious, a sample nm man page is here.

Solution 1

Try dumpbin.exe.

MSDN dumpbin.exe reference.

Solution 2

1. Run vcvarsall.bat which might present in your installed path of Microsoft Visual Studio. This sets environmental variable required for dumpbin.exe.

   D:>"D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\vcvarsall.bat" x86

2. Then use dumpbin.exe. For example dumpbin.exe /ALL <bin_file> gives all symbols.

Comments

[dothebart]

both links are dead :-(

[dothebart]

yes, got it working. However, the MSDN documentation is next to worthless - a properly implemented --help argument could have superseeded it easily

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