[Haskell-cafe] Porting ELF statifier to Haskell!

[Thomas DuBuisson]

Interesting tool.  For my recent work I too have found a use for the
elf package, but its lack of a full binary instance and no parsing of
.symtab or .dynstr sections limits its usefulness.  This isn't a
debilitating limitation - you can use elf for basic inspection then
perform mutations via objcopy and ld, which are more likely to have
any oddities / corner cases accounted for anyway.

Thomas

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:20 PM, C K Kashyap <ckkashyap at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> At my work we ran into a situation where we started wishing there was a way
> to take a dynamically linked executable and create a statically linked
> bundle out of it. Little bit of googling got me to statifier -
> http://statifier.sourceforge.net/statifier/main.html. The project seems a
> little old and when I tried it out on my 32bit RHEL5 box, the statically
> linked file did not run. So I thought it would be a good exercise to try and
> use Haskell's Elf module (Data.Elf) and attempt to build a statifier. Just
> wanted to understand if anyone's tried this before or have any advice for
> me.
> --
> Regards,
> Kashyap
>
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