2016-11-30: An alternative build mechanism using cmake is now in the source tree. The builds for product testing continue to be done using configure && make. 2016-09-20: --enable-sanitize option added to configure. This builds with -fsanitize=address to check for out of bounds memory access. 2016-09-05: dwarfexample/simpleexample.c now has a simple option letting one extract all .debug_info, .debug_types strings into a file by themselves in case one wanted to examine string frequencies, for example. 2016-06-01: Now we use DW_VERSION_DATE_STR for dates everywhere instead of __DATE__ __TIME__ so a repeated build gets identical object output. DW_VERSION_DATE_STR is updated by UPDATEDWARFDUMPVERSION.sh wherever that string is needed. 2015-11-26: If DWARF section data you intend to read with libdwarf is compressed by zlib (a section name like .zdebug_info indicates such compression) libdwarf etc will need zlib's headers and archive or shared-library at build and link time. If you do not have zlib everything will compile fine and will work on ordinary DWARF sections but libdwarf will not be able to read .zdebug_ compressed sections. zlib.h is the main zlib header and libz.a is the most likely zlib library you will encounter. 2015-11-15: It is now possible to build outside of the source tree. See README. So configure.in changed a little. 2015-01-13: Removed dwarfdump2 and references to it. dwarfdump has the (tsearch) features needed so the C++ version no longer a benefit.