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24 alternatives to A Ghidra extension for exporting parts of a program as object files

This Ghidra extension unrelocates machine code through analysis and then synthesizes a working object file from a listing selection. It effectively turns computer programs into Lego bricks, to be torn down into pieces and reused into something new. It supports the COFF and ELF object file formats, for the x86 and MIPS architectures. It has been successfully used on Linux, Windows and PlayStation executables. One user report is on a commercial video game from 2009 with a ~7 MiB Windows executable written in C++: it was delinked without its C runtime library and then relinked into a new…

This Ghidra extension extracts selected machine code from compiled programs and converts it into reusable object files in COFF or ELF formats. It supports x86 and MIPS architectures and has worked on Linux, Windows… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A Ghidra extension for exporting parts of a program as object files launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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A Ghidra extension that turns programs back into object files▲7
Hi all, I've been working on tooling that can reverse the work of a linker. It allows one to take bits and pieces of an executable and delink them into working object files, which can then be reused as-is to make new programs or libraries, without having to decompile or disassemble them first. The readme has links to my blog demonstrating some of the use-cases. The most impressive one so far is making a port of a ~100 KiB Linux a.out i386 program to a native Windows PE i386 executable, despite not having access to its original source code or even decompiling it. Currently, 32-bit i386 and…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Ghidra MCP Server – 110 tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering▲298
Ghidra MCP Server — 200+ MCP tools for AI-powered reverse engineering. GUI plugin + headless server, lazy tool loading, convention enforcement, batch operations, Ghidra Server integration, and Docker deployment. - bethington/ghidra-mcp
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Ghidra Plays Mario▲207
I've been exploring new ways of testing Ghidra processor modules. In this repo, I was able to emulate NES ROMs in Ghidra to test its 6502 specification, which resulted in finding and fixing some bugs. Context: Ghidra is used for reverse engineering binary executables, complementing the usual disassembly view with function decompilation. Each supported architecture has a SLEIGH specification, which provides semantics for parsing and emulating instructions, not unlike the dispatch handlers you would find in interpreters written for console emulators. Emulator devs have long had extensive test…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Greplica▲186
Self updating wiki for coding agents
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Archittect▲153
Generate 100% accurate code. Any framework, any language
2023 · archittect.com · its alternatives →
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CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS▲170
Hey HN, just wanted to share my success story with CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS. For those who may not be familiar, FFmpeg is a powerful tool for converting, streaming, and recording audio and video content. I started CompressX as a weekend project to serve my 9-5 jobs, primarily to compress demo videos for uploading to GitLab and sharing with my colleagues. It took me 2 weeks to make the first working version. I shared the demo on Twitter and the reaction was extraordinary. People loved it, they said that I was bringing the Pied Piper to life. Four months later, I hit the $9,000…
2024 · compressx.app · its alternatives →
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Gradio 5.0▲224
connect nodes to build AI pipelines, powered by Hugging Face
2024 · gradio.app · its alternatives →
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I wrote a Java decompiler in pure C language▲172
The world's fastest apk (android)/java open source decompiler - neocanable/garlic
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Xcc700: Self-hosting mini C compiler for ESP32 (Xtensa) in 700 lines▲154
Repo: https://github.com/valdanylchuk/xcc700 Hi Everyone! I just wrote my first compiler! - single pass, recursive descent, direct emission - generates REL ELF binaries, runnable using ESP-IDF elf_loader - very basic features only, just enough for self-hosting - treats the Xtensa CPU as a stack machine for simplicity, no register allocation / window usage - compilable on Mac, probably also Linux, can cross-compile for esp32 there - wrote for fun / cyberdeck project Sample output from esp32: xcc700.elf xcc700.c -o /d/cc.elf [ xcc700 ] BUILD COMPLETED >…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A Golang CP/M emulator▲107
Z80-based CP/M emulator, in golang. Happily runs Zork, Microsoft BASIC, Turbo Pascal, Wordstar, etc. - skx/cpmulator
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A simple, highly commented, rootkit which attacks GCC and Python▲94
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Goboscript, text-based programming language, compiles to Scratch▲162
goboscript is a text-based programming language which compiles to Scratch. It allows you to write Scratch projects in text, and compile it into a .sb3 file - which can be opened in the Scratch editor, TurboWarp or be uploaded to the Scratch website. goboscript allows you to create advanced Scratch projects with ease, you can use any text editor, use a version control system such as git. You can refactor your code using search and replace. Text code can be copy pasted, which allows you to easily reuse code or share it with others. goboscript syntax is concise and easy to read. goboscript…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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BiTE – Cross-platform executable viewer and reverse engineering tool▲176
Hey everyone! I’m excited to share a project I’ve been working on throughout my university studies. It’s called BiTE (https://github.com/WINSDK/bite) and it's a tool primarily focused on being an executable viewer with reverse engineering capabilities. BiTE supports Windows, MacOS, and Linux, along with their associated executable formats. It’s also capable of parsing and displaying debug information using DWARF/PDB formats, which I hope will be useful even for just comparing codegen. I’ve put a lot of effort into this and it's the first time I'm releasing something…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GhydraMCP – Agentic reverse engineering across multiple binaries▲5
Hi HN, I was playing around with the recently posted ghidraMCP by LaurieWired (https://github.com/LaurieWired/GhidraMCP) and wanted to try it on a project I'm working, but that has multiple component that interact with each other. So after fixing some minor things in ghidraMCP I went overboard and extended it to support multiple open Ghidra files and interact with all of them in the same session. I also made the HTTP interfaces more REST-like, and am working on adding more functionality to the tool, like renaming local variables. Huge thanks to LaurieWired for the initial…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A Fast, Malloc-Free C++14 Json Parser and Encoder▲98
Meta programming utilities for C++14. Merged in matt-42/lithium - matt-42/iod
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A toy bootloader written in C++▲64
Yes, this includes the MBR and partition boot sector. The partition table is modeled as a class hierarchy. Second stage loads a kernel from a FAT32 file. I'm normally a C programmer, but for a work project, I recently revisited C++, a language that I had an on-again-off-again relationship over the years. I did this as a fun training exercise on the side to get familiar with the language again, but obsessed a bit and kind of overshot the target. I thought the result might be of interest to someone.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open Source Suite for Binary Analysis, Based on QEmu and LLVM▲46
Next-gen decompiler.
2018 · rev.ng · its alternatives →
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Reviving a 20-year-old puzzle game Chromatron with Ghidra and AI▲28
Hello HN, I'm sharing a little open-source utility I wrote recently. I'm a huge fan of Brendan Gregg's "BPF Performance Tools" book. However, every time I SSH into a fresh server, most of the diagnostic tools aren't installed there and installing them can be really annoying. I decided to use Nix package manager and LLMs to make this process straightforward. My utility first downloads a "toolbox" of Linux utilities (built with Nix), runs Brendan Gregg's famous "60-second Linux analysis" playbook and then summarizes the results with an LLM. So "60-second Linux analysis" now becomes a single…
Mar 2026 · quesma.com · its alternatives →
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Globstar – Open-source static analysis toolkit▲103
Hey HN! We’re Jai and Sanket, co-founders of DeepSource (YC W20). We're open-sourcing Globstar (https://github.com/DeepSourceCorp/globstar), a static analysis toolkit that lets you easily write and run custom code quality and security checkers in YAML [1] or Go [2]. After 5+ years of building AST-based static analyzers that process millions of lines of code daily at DeepSource, we kept hearing a common request from customers: "How do we write custom checks specific to our codebase?" AppSec and DevOps teams have a lot of learned anti-patterns and security rules they want…
2025 · its alternatives →
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GUIs for Faster ML Prototyping and Sharing▲85
Build and share delightful machine learning apps, all in Python. 🌟 Star to support our work! - gradio-app/gradio
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Manta – A tool for FPGA Debugging and Rapid Prototyping▲86
Hi HN! I'm Fischer, and I'm super stoked to share a project that I've been working on for a little over a year: Manta, an open-source, cross-platform, vendor-independent tool for debugging and rapid prototyping with FPGAs. This was originally my Master's Thesis at MIT, where I developed it for our course on FPGA design. We needed an alternative to vendor debugging tools, which only supported x86 machines running Windows or Linux. We were able to patch in macOS support with VMs, but as more students came bringing ARM-based devices, we needed a new tool. So I developed this. It's called Manta,…
2024 · fischermoseley.github.io · its alternatives →
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Building a scripting language and bytecode interpreter for education▲40
Full gscript scripting language implementation using the GVM as a runtime environment. A language with objects, functions, strings, numbers and booleans. Easy to hack, understand, embed or modify. - gs-lang/README.md at master · geertvos/gs-lang
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ast-grep▲66
A polyglot tool for code searching, linting, rewriting
2023 · ast-grep.github.io · its alternatives →
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Physically-Based GPU Pathtracer with Mitsuba XML Support▲63
GPU Raytracer from scratch in C++/CUDA. Contribute to jan-van-bergen/GPU-Raytracer development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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