What is LIEF Extended?¶

Introduction¶

LIEF extended is an enhanced version of LIEF that contains additional features like the support of Dyld shared cache, Objective-C metadata, PDB and DWARF.

Whilst the main version of LIEF is focused on (only) providing the support for ELF, PE, and Mach-O, LIEF extended aims at providing other functionalities that were not originally designed to be integrated in LIEF.

You can find the differences between both versions in this table:

Module	Regular Version	Extended Version	Note
ELF
PE
Mach-O
DEX
OAT
VDEX
ART
PDB			Support based on LLVM
DWARF			Support based on LLVM
ObjC			Support based on romainthomas/iCDump
Dyld Shared Cache
Disassembler			Support based on LLVM

To access the extended version, you must oauth-login with GitHub here: https://extended.lief.re/.

Warning

LIEF extended is currently in a closed-beta state, please first reach out at extended@lief.re to get the access.

Once logged in, you can download the package of your choice (e.g. LIEF Extended - Python 3.10 for macOS arm64)

Note

There is a delay between each download.