VNDK Header Checker

The VNDK header checker consists of 3 tools: header-abi-dumper, header-abi-linker, and header-abi-diff. The first two commands generate ABI dumps for shared libraries. The third command compares the ABI dumps with the reference ABI dumps in prebuilts/abi-dumps. If there are no ABI dumps under prebuilts/abi-dumps, follow the instructions in Create Reference ABI Dumps to create one.

Header ABI Dumper

header-abi-dumper dumps the ABIs (including classes, functions, variables, etc) defined in a C/C++ source file.

The -I command line option controls the scope of ABIs that must be dumped. If -I <path-to-export-include-dir> is specified, the generated ABI dump will only include the classes, the functions, and the variables that are defined in the header files under the exported include directories.

Usage

header-abi-dumper -o <dump-file> <source_file> \
    -I <export-include-dir-1> \
    -I <export-include-dir-2> \
    ... \
    -- \
    <cflags>

For more command line options, run header-abi-dumper --help.

Header ABI Linker

header-abi-linker links several ABI dumps produced by header-abi-dumper. This tool combines all the ABI information present in the input ABI dump files and prunes the irrelevant ABI dumps.

Usage

header-abi-linker -o <linked-abi-dump> \
    <abi-dump1> <abi-dump2> <abi-dump3> ... \
    -so <path to so file> \
    -v <path to version script>

For more command line options, run header-abi-linker --help.

Header ABI Diff

header-abi-diff compares two header ABI dumps produced by header-abi-dumper. It produces a report outlining all the differences between the ABIs exposed by the two dumps.

Usage

header-abi-diff -old <old-abi-dump> -new <new-abi-dump> -o <report>

For more command line options, run header-abi-diff --help.

Return Value

• 0: Compatible
• 1: Changes to APIs unreferenced by symbols in the .dynsym table
• 4: Compatible extension
• 8: Incompatible
• 16: ELF incompatible (Some symbols in the .dynsym table, not exported by public headers, were removed.)

Create Reference ABI Dumps

utils/create_reference_dumps.py may be used to create reference ABI dumps.

#For VNDK libraries

For example, the command below creates reference ABI dumps for all VNDK shared libraries on arm, arm64, x86, and x86_64 architectures:

$ python3 create_reference_dumps.py

To create reference ABI dumps for a specific library, run the command below:

$ python3 create_reference_dumps.py -l libfoo

This will create reference dumps for libfoo, assuming libfoo is a VNDK library.

For LLNDK libraries

$ python3 create_reference_dumps.py -l libfoo --llndk

This will create reference dumps for libfoo, assuming libfoo is an LLNDK library.

For more command line options, run utils/create_reference_dumps.py --help.