# Command line:
vmlinux-to-elf <input_kernel.bin> <output_kernel.elf>

# Command line, list symbol addresses only:
kallsyms-finder <input_kernel.bin> # If installed with uv
vmlinux-to-elf.kallsyms-finder # If installed with snap

# Command line, just decompress the kernel:
vmlinuz-decompressor <input_kernel.bin> <output_kernel.bin> # If installed with uv
vmlinux-to-elf.vmlinuz-decompressor # If installed with snap

# Graphical:
vmlinux-to-elf-gui # If installed with uv
vmlinux-to-elf.gui # If installed with snap
flatpak run re.fossplant.vmlinux-to-elf # If installed with flatpak

# Install CLI+GUI with Snap (recommended on Ubuntu)
sudo snap install vmlinux-to-elf

# Install CLI+GUI with yay (recommended on Arch, Manjaro)
yay -S vmlinux-to-elf libadwaita python-gobject

# Install CLI+GUI with uv (example with Fedora)
sudo dnf install -y uv glib2-devel libadwaita-devel gtk4-devel \
    gobject-introspection-devel python3-gobject-devel \
    python3-devel cairo-devel @development-tools
uv tool install vmlinux-to-elf[gui]
vmlinux-to-elf-gui --install-metadata # Install .desktop file

# Install CLI with uv and GUI with Flatpak (recommended on
# distributions with libadwaita < 1.6)
sudo dnf install -y uv flatpak @development-tools
uv tool install vmlinux-to-elf

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install re.fossplant.vmlinux-to-elf

sudo snap install --classic astral-uv
sudo apt install git
git clone [email protected]:marin-m/vmlinux-to-elf.git

# Dependencies for the GTK-4 GUI
sudo apt install libgirepository-2.0-dev libadwaita-1-dev \
    gir1.2-adw-1 gir1.2-gtk-4.0 python3-dev blueprint-compiler

cd vmlinux-to-elf
cp -a .github/hooks/* .git/hooks/
# Download Python modules and initialize virtualenv (creates ".venv",
# call "source .venv/bin/activate" to set up)
uv sync --extra gui
# Add vmlinux-to-elf to $PATH, so that the commands are callable
# system-wide (creates a symlink to the source in "~/.local/bin")
uv tool install -e .[gui]

$ vmlinux-to-elf -h
usage: vmlinux-to-elf [-h] [--e-machine DECIMAL_NUMBER] [--bit-size BIT_SIZE]
                      [--file-offset HEX_NUMBER] [--base-address HEX_NUMBER]
                      [--bss-size BSS_SIZE] [--use-absolute]
                      input_file output_file

Turn a raw or compressed kernel binary, or a kernel ELF without symbols, into a fully analyzable ELF whose symbols were extracted from the kernel symbol table

positional arguments:
  input_file            Path to the vmlinux/vmlinuz/zImage/bzImage/kernel.bin/kernel.elf file to make into an analyzable .ELF
  output_file           Path to the analyzable .ELF to output

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --e-machine DECIMAL_NUMBER
                        Force overriding the output ELF "e_machine" field with this integer value (rather than auto-detect)
  --bit-size BIT_SIZE   Force overriding the input kernel bit size, providing 32 or 64 bit (rather than auto-detect)
  --file-offset HEX_NUMBER
                        Consider that the raw kernel starts at this offset of the provided raw file or compressed stream (rather than 0, or the beginning of the ELF
                        sections if an ELF header was present in the input)
  --base-address HEX_NUMBER
                        Force overriding the output ELF base address field with this integer value (rather than auto-detect)
  --bss-size BSS_SIZE   Size in megabytes of the .bss section in the binary
  --use-absolute        Assume kallsyms offsets are absolute addresses