dumbin.exe, editbin.exe, lib.exe …

They’re all just slim wrappers around the actual link.exe, not using a common DLL or so, but actually invoking:

• dumpbin.exe simply invokes "link /dump" and failing that "link.exe link /dump"
• editbin.exe simply invokes "link /edit" and failing that "link.exe link /edit"
• lib.exe simply invokes "link /lib" and failing that "link.exe link /lib"

… respectively; all with the respective command line arguments, you passed to the tools, appended.

I’m currently looking into internals of cl.exe and link.exe and thought I’d share. On the other hand I probably could have gained that insight as well from Geoff Chappell’s website, rather than from IDA 😉 …

// Oliver