Linux Binary Preview

Open binary Linux files and display information about the symbols contained.

Supported file types

• Shared objects (.so)
• Archives (.a)
• Executable binary files
• Compressed Archives (.tar, .rar, .zip, .7z)

Displayed information for shared objects / archives is the output of the commands

• file (File information)
• ldd (Linked libraries, if available)
• nm (Contained symbols) which have to be installed in your system.

For compressed archives, the contained file names are displayed.

Tool System Dependencies

Install them with apt-get install <pkg> if you want to see the relavant output.

All tools paths can be configured via vscode-linux-binary-preview.<tool>_command, e.g.

{
    "vscode-linux-binary-preview.nm_command": "/usr/local/bin/nm"
}