elfutils ☆

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Description:
Libraries and utilities for handling ELF objects

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 0.194@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 17, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: elf debugging binary-analysis dwarf development

Install: brew install elfutils

About:
elfutils provides a suite of libraries and utilities for analyzing and manipulating ELF (Executable and Linkable Format) object files, the standard binary format on Linux and other Unix-like systems. It offers essential tools for developers working with debugging information, symbol tables, and binary inspection. This collection is a crucial component for building debuggers, profilers, and other low-level development tools.

Key Features:

Read and display ELF file structures and debugging information
Provides libraries for parsing and processing ELF objects programmatically
Includes utilities like eu-readelf, eu-objdump, and eu-strip
Supports DWARF debugging format for detailed symbol analysis

Use Cases:

Inspecting binary dependencies and symbol tables for software analysis
Debugging and profiling applications at a low level
Manipulating ELF sections and stripping debugging information from binaries

Alternatives:

GNU Binutils – Binutils (readelf, objdump) is the standard GNU alternative, often pre-installed on systems. elfutils aims to be a more modern, libdw-based implementation focused on DWARF debugging information.

License: GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-only

Dependencies: bzip2, xz, zlib, zstd

Bottles available for: arm64_linux, x86_64_linux

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Nov 4, 2023 2:05am		0	VERSION_BUMP	4814840c