About

The tool was developed on DIA API, with the main goal of speeding up the output of class fields and other types. Its functionality includes outputting the type by name (-type), outputting the compilands (-compilands), and source files (-sources).

In particular, this project was written as the best replacement for IDA (of course, only in the implementation of the types, as decompilation is too time-consuming a task), pdbex and Dia2Dump, which do not provide a normal and fast way to implement code (each has its drawback, and I tried to address them here).

Usage

Type

Go to the path of DumpPDB, then enter DumpPDB.exe -type <type_name> <source.pdb>

In the output, you may observe a considerable amount of debug information, such as offsets of fields and bit fields, sizes of structures, as well as the source files in which this structure was encountered. While all of this information is useful, it may also be a distraction for you. If you so desire, you can recompile the code by altering the global parameters, or you can await the implementation of serialization.

Example output:

// size: 52 byte
class MainObjectDefinition : public ExposedDefinition
{
    /// TYPEDEFS:
    typedef ClassBeingDefined MainObject;

    /// VIRTUALS:
    virtual MainObject* CreateObject(); // 0x0
    virtual void Init(); // 0x0
    virtual void ~MainObjectDefinition(); // 0x0
    virtual void* __vecDelDtor(); // 0x0

    /// FUNCS:
    void MainObjectDefinition();
    void MainObjectDefinition();
    MainObjectDefinition& operator=();
    void __local_vftable_ctor_closure();
};
// f:\user\sample\mainobject.cpp
// f:\user\sample\mainobject.cpp
// f:\user\sample\maininstance.cpp
// f:\user\sample\maininstance.cpp
// f:\user\sample\maininstance.cpp
// f:\user\sample\maininstance.cpp
// f:\user\sample\maininstance.cpp
// f:\user\sample\maininstance.cpp

Goals

• complete the serialization ✅
• expanded function type output (e.g. declspec(__naked), __noinline etc.)
• implement a one-time output of the field's scope (if 3-4 fields in succession share the same visibility, display only that visibility at the very top)
• hints on function generation by the compiler (default constructors, the equality operator, and others are often created by the compiler.)
• cleanup of the "void" type for the destructor (e.g. void ~Object())
• print namespace's data
• code cleanup

Possible problems

You may encounter a command line limitations: > was unexpected at this time. or The system cannot find the file specified. You can encounter this when entering a template type, but < controls input and output in the command line; to solve the problem, it is enough to simply enter the above type in quotes, for example "TemplateType<SizeS>".

When outputting functions, sometimes the named args may be incomplete, so the code outputs their complete types (without names, they are displayed after the sign "<-").