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This spotlight will find all the exported and imported symbols from library object files. It will collect the information from the following file extensions.
.o .a .dylib
From the command line you can search for symbols using the mdfind command. For example, your trying to compile a project and are notified undefined symbol _get_segprot_from_flag. To locate the object file the symbol is located in you could enter the following command.
mdfind 'com_polymicrosystems_objectfile_export_symbols = _get_segprot_from_flag'
and volia!
/Volumes/leopard/Sources/XCode/Spotlights/LibSpotlight/Test/test.o
You can see the exported symbols with the mdls command (or of course the nm command)
mdls -name com_polymicrosystems_objectfile_export_symbols test.o
com_polymicrosystems_objectfile_export_symbols = (
"_force_cpusubtype_ALL_for_cputype",
"_force_cpusubtype_ALL_for_cputype.eh",
"_get_arch_family_from_cputype",
"_get_arch_family_from_cputype.eh",
"_get_arch_flags",
"_get_arch_flags.eh",
"_get_arch_from_flag",
"_get_arch_from_flag.eh",
"_get_arch_name_from_types",
"_get_arch_name_from_types.eh",
"_get_byte_sex_from_flag",
"_get_byte_sex_from_flag.eh",
"_get_segalign_from_flag",
"_get_segalign_from_flag.eh",
"_get_segprot_from_flag",
"_get_segprot_from_flag.eh",
"_get_shared_region_size_from_flag",
)
Included, is an application to quickly locate symbols and display which object files they are located in.