Trying to see why we're getting "entry point not found" when I know it should be in there. Aside from the map, is there a tool that'll "explore" a .bpl or .dll and show the entry points?
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this: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/dll_export_viewer.html – jachguate Mar 01 '13 at 20:10
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syntax turned out to be: tdump -ea
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1alternate: tdump -da
| grep -i – Chris Thornton Mar 01 '13 at 20:30::
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Delphi comes with a command-line program called tdump that will print, among other things, the lists of imported and exported symbols for a binary. A BPL file is just a DLL with specially formatted function names.
The documentation says Tdump will unmangle names with the -um option, but I think that might only apply to C++ name mangling, not the changes Delphi makes to identifiers. Try it and see. Even if the names remain mangled, it's not too hard to recognize the names you're looking for.
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Thanks! The most useful form was alternate: tdump -da
with a "| grep -i – Chris Thornton Mar 02 '13 at 00:44" to filter out the unit that I needed to list, or for the entry point name that I was SURE was in there (and it was). User had a mangled environment which was finding an old version of the .bpl. Sometimes you just need a sanity check, and this was it!