Welcome to GView’s documentation!

GView is a cross-platform reverse engineering and data analysis framework. It lets you examine files, buffers, or memory through multiple visualization options and a plugin-based architecture for file formats and generic operations.

Contents

• GView description
  • General description
  • Use cases
  • See GView in action
• GView usage
  • First run
  • Building from source
  • Configuration
  • Dependencies
• GView use in education
  • Use case
  • Security and limitations
• GView architecture
  • Architecture flow
  • Directory structure
  • Code structure
  • Diagrams
• GView configuration file
  • Types
• Security and restricted mode
  • Public API (GView.hpp)
  • Limitations
• Plugin development
  • Public vs internal API
  • Type plugin contract
  • Smart viewers
  • Key interfaces
  • Adding a new Type plugin
  • Coding conventions
  • Common patterns
  • Generic plugins
  • Quick reference
• GView Core
  • Core
  • Golang binary support (references)
• GView Global Plugins
  • Character table
  • Hashes
• GView Specific Plugins (Type Plugins)
  • GView Specific Plugin: Mach-O
  • GView Specific Plugin: Prefetch
• GView development
  • Testing
  • GitHub workflows
• GView contributing
  • Start contributing
  • Reporting issues

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page