How do I view the list of functions a Linux shared library is exporting?
On a MAC, you need to use nm *.o | c++filt
, as there is no -C
option in nm
.
What you need is nm
and its -D
option:
$ nm -D /usr/lib/libopenal.so.1
.
.
.
00012ea0 T alcSetThreadContext
000140f0 T alcSuspendContext
U atanf
U calloc
.
.
.
Exported sumbols are indicated by a T
. Required symbols that must be loaded from other shared objects have a U
. Note that the symbol table does not include just functions, but exported variables as well.
See the nm
manual page for more information.
Among other already mentioned tools you can use also readelf
(manual). It is similar to objdump
but goes more into detail. See this for the difference explanation.
$ readelf -sW /lib/liblzma.so.5 |head -n10
Symbol table '.dynsym' contains 128 entries:
Num: Value Size Type Bind Vis Ndx Name
0: 00000000 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT UND
1: 00000000 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND pthread_mutex_unlock@GLIBC_2.0 (4)
2: 00000000 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND pthread_mutex_destroy@GLIBC_2.0 (4)
3: 00000000 0 NOTYPE WEAK DEFAULT UND _ITM_deregisterTMCloneTable
4: 00000000 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND memmove@GLIBC_2.0 (5)
5: 00000000 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND free@GLIBC_2.0 (5)
6: 00000000 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND memcpy@GLIBC_2.0 (5)
objdump -T *.so
may also do the job