objcopy Command Examples

Copy the contents of an object file to another file. More information: https://manned.org/objcopy.

• Copy data to another file:

objcopy {{path/to/source_file}} {{path/to/target_file}}

• Translate object files from one format to another:

objcopy --input-target={{input_format}} --output-target {{output_format}} {{path/to/source_file}} {{path/to/target_file}}

• Strip all symbol information from the file:

objcopy --strip-all {{path/to/source_file}} {{path/to/target_file}}

• Strip debugging information from the file:

objcopy --strip-debug {{path/to/source_file}} {{path/to/target_file}}

• Copy a specific section from the source file to the destination file:

objcopy --only-section {{section}} {{path/to/source_file}} {{path/to/target_file}}