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authorMason Reed <mason@vector35.com>2026-02-11 18:04:07 -0800
committerMason Reed <35282038+emesare@users.noreply.github.com>2026-02-23 00:09:44 -0800
commit37008b7fa16837d04c1658868646cad681cbe035 (patch)
tree577c2b62ee47c78a5d31d11f2aa610e441f5c808 /plugins/bntl_utils/cli/src/validate.rs
parent837f8590be80b7c98162e70e4f0c1814b83e9d7b (diff)
Add BNTL utility plugin
Allow users to easily create, diff, dump and validate type libraries Supports the following formats: - C header files (via core type parsers) - Binary files (collects exported and imported functions) - WinMD files (via `windows-metadata` crate) - Existing type library files (for easy fixups) - Apiset files (to resolve through forwarded windows dlls) Can be invoked as a regular plugin via UI commands or via CLI. Processing of type libraries inherently requires external linking, processing will automatically merge and deduplicate colliding type libraries so prefer to use inside a project or a directory and process all information (for a given platform) at once, rather than smaller invocations.
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+use binaryninja::platform::Platform;
+use bntl_utils::validate::{TypeLibValidater, ValidateIssue};
+use clap::Args;
+use rayon::prelude::*;
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::path::PathBuf;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Args)]
+pub struct ValidateArgs {
+ /// Path to the directory containing the type libraries to validate.
+ ///
+ /// This must contain all the type libraries referencable.
+ pub input: PathBuf,
+ /// Dump validation results to the directory specified.
+ #[clap(short, long)]
+ pub output: Option<PathBuf>,
+}
+
+impl ValidateArgs {
+ pub fn execute(&self) {
+ if let Some(output_dir) = &self.output {
+ std::fs::create_dir_all(output_dir).expect("Failed to create output directory");
+ }
+
+ // TODO: For now we just pass all the type libraries in the containing input directory.
+ let type_libs = bntl_utils::helper::path_to_type_libraries(&self.input);
+ type_libs.par_iter().for_each(|type_lib| {
+ // We run validation per platform. This is to make sure that if we depend on platform
+ // types that they exist in each one of the specified platforms, not just one of them.
+ let mut platform_mapped_issues: HashMap<ValidateIssue, Vec<String>> = HashMap::new();
+ let available_platforms = type_lib.platform_names();
+
+ for platform in &available_platforms {
+ let platform = Platform::by_name(platform).expect("Failed to load platform");
+ let mut ctx = TypeLibValidater::new()
+ .with_type_libraries(type_libs.clone())
+ .with_platform(&platform);
+ let result = ctx.validate(&type_lib);
+ for issue in &result.issues {
+ platform_mapped_issues
+ .entry(issue.clone())
+ .or_default()
+ .push(platform.name().to_string());
+ }
+
+ if let Some(output_dir) = &self.output
+ && !result.issues.is_empty()
+ {
+ let dump_path = output_dir
+ .join(type_lib.name())
+ .with_extension(format!("{}.problems.json", platform.name()));
+ let result = serde_json::to_string_pretty(&result.issues)
+ .expect("Failed to serialize result");
+ std::fs::write(dump_path, result).expect("Failed to write validation result");
+ }
+ }
+
+ for (issue, platforms) in platform_mapped_issues {
+ match (available_platforms.len(), platforms.len()) {
+ (1, _) => tracing::error!("{}", issue),
+ _ => tracing::error!("{}: {}", platforms.join(", "), issue),
+ }
+ }
+ });
+ }
+}