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How to print a list of symbols exported from a dynamic library

So I've been trying to get dynamic libraries to work in my XCode project under Mac OS X. So far no joy.

I am able to load the dylib file, but when I call dlsym to get the function pointer, it returns 0 and dlerror says symbol not found.

So I am wondering if there is a simple way to list the symbols that are exported from a dylib file. Any ideas would be great.

Solution

  • man 1 nm

    https://web.archive.org/web/20160316222941/https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/nm.1.html

    For example:

    nm -gU /usr/local/Cellar/cairo/1.12.16/lib/cairo/libcairo-trace.0.dylib