Produce output files

This submenu allows you to produce various output files. It also allows you to unload the database.

The text file-producing operations below will make use of

Create MAP File

 Action    name: ProduceMap

Please enter a file name for the map. IDA will write the following information about this file:

  - current segmentation
  - list of names sorted by values

You may disable the generation of the segmentation information. You may also enable or disable dummy names in the output file.

You can use this map file for your information, and also for debugging (for example, Periscope from Periscope Company or Borland's Turbo Debugger can read this file).

Create ASM File

 Action    name: ProduceAsm

Please enter a file name for the assembler text file. IDA will write the disassembled text to this file.

If you have selected a range on the screen using Drop Anchor command, IDA will write only the selected range (from the current address to the anchor).

If some I/O problem (e.g. disk full) occurs during writing to the file, IDA will stop and a partial file will be created.

Create INC File

 Action    name: ProduceInc

Please enter a file name for the assembler include file. IDA will write the information about the defined types (structures and enums) to this file.

If some I/O problem (e.g. disk full) occurs during writing to the file, IDA will stop and a partial file will be created.

Create LST File

 Action    name: ProduceLst

Enter a file name for the assembler listing file. IDA will write the disassembled text to this file.

If you've selected a range on the screen using Drop Anchor command, IDA will write only the selected range (from the current address to the anchor).

If some I/O problem (e.g. disk full) occurs during writing to the file, IDA will stop and a partial file will be created.

Create Executable File

 Action    name: ProduceExe

Enter a file name for the new executable file. Usually this command is used after patching (see commands Patch byte and Patch word) to obtain a patched version of the file.

IDA produces executable files only for:

  - MS DOS .exe
  - MS DOS .com
  - MS DOS .drv
  - MS DOS .sys
  - general binary
  - Intel Hex Object Format
  - MOS Technology Hex Object Format

For other file formats please create a difference file.

Only Patch byte/word commands affect the executable file contents, other commands (including User-Specified String for the #th Operand) will not affect the content of the disassembled file.

EXE files: Output files will have the same EXE-header and relocation table as the input file. IDA will fill unused ranges of the EXE file (e.g. between relocation table and loadable pages) with zeroes.

See also Edit|Patch core submenu.

Create Difference File

 Action    name: ProduceDiff

This command will prompt you for a filename and then will create a plain text difference file of the following format:

 comment

 filename
 offset: oldval  newval

See also Edit|Patch core submenu.

Create HTML File

 Action    name: ProduceHtml

Please enter a file name for the HTML file. IDA will write the disassembled text to this file.

If you've selected a range on the screen using Drop Anchor command, IDA will write only the selected range (from the current address to the anchor).

If some I/O problem (e.g. disk full) occurs during writing to the file, IDA will stop and a partial file will be created.

This command is available only in the graphical version of IDA.

Produce flow chart GDL file

 Action    name: ProduceFuncGdl

This command creates a GDL (graph description file) with the flow chart of the current function.

If there is an active selection, its flow chart will be generated.

IDA will ask for the output file name. Regardless of the specified extension, the .GDL extension will be used.

Produce call graph GDL file

 Action    name: ProduceCallGdl

This command creates a GDL (graph description file) with the graph of the function calls.

IDA will ask for the output file name. Regardless of the specified extension, the .GDL extension will be used.

Dump database to IDC file

 Action    name: DumpDatabase

This command saves current IDA database into a text file.

You can use it as a safety command:

  - to protect your work from disasters
  - to migrate information into new database formats of IDA.

This command is used when you want to switch to a new version of IDA. Usually each new version of IDA has its own database format. To create a new format database, you need:

  1. to issue the 'Dump...' command for the old
     database (using old version of IDA). You will
     get an IDC file containing all information
     from your old database.
  2. to reload your database using new IDA with switch -x.
  3. to compile and execute the IDC file with command
    'Execute IDC file' (usually F2)

Please note that this command does not save everything to text file. Any information about the local variables will be lost!

Create C header file

 Action    name: ProduceHeader

This command saves all definitions in the local types window into a C header file.

Dump typeinfo to IDC file

 Action    name: DumpTypes

This command saves information about the user-defined types from the IDA database into a text file.

Information about enums, structure types and other user-defined types is saved in a text form as an IDC program.

You can use this command to migrate the type definitions from one database to another.

See also other File... submenu commands.

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