android-elf-cleaner

Android ELF cleaner

Small utility to remove offending ELF entries:

• DT_VERNEEDED,
• DT_VERNEEDNUM
• DT_RPATH
• DT_RUNPATH

Usage

usage: ./android-elf-cleaner <filename>
       Processes ELF files to remove DT_VERNEEDED, DT_VERNEEDNUM, DT_RPATH
       and DT_RUNPATH entries (which the Android linker warns about)

Solution

This utility is solution to the following linker warnings:

WARNING: linker: /data/data/org.kost.nmap.android.networkmapper/bin/nmap: unused DT entry: type 0x6ffffffe arg 0x8a7d4
WARNING: linker: /data/data/org.kost.nmap.android.networkmapper/bin/nmap: unused DT entry: type 0x6fffffff arg 0x3

Requirements

You need g++ 5.x version. It will not work on g++ 4.x version. For example, it works with 16.04 Ubuntu LTS, but not with 14.04 Ubuntu LTS.

License and credits

GPLv3 licensed. Based on termux ELF cleaner.