Cannot find Dumpbin.exe

Question

I do not see dumpbin.exe on my system. I have Visual Studio 2005 on my system. When I type dumpbin on the command line, it says unrecognizable command.

Does it come

Answer 1

As for VS2017, I found it under C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.14.26428\bin\Hostx64\x64

Answer 2

Instead of using the dumpin.exe it is possible to call the link.exe with several options:

Example: link /dump /all myfile.lib

For detailed options see output of link /dump

In case of Visual Studio C++ Express installation, the link.exe is located here:

{root}\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\

The best way is to open the "Visual Studio Command Prompt" and then enter the lines above.

Answer 3

Dumpbin.exe of VS2005 generally presents in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin. If you would have installed VS2005 in drive other the C, please search in that. And then set that path in the system variable PATH.

Answer 4

You can use the Visual Studio command prompt. dumpbin is available then.

Answer 5

A little refresh as for the Visual Studio 2015.

DUMPBIN is being shipped within Common Tools for Visual C++, so be sure to select this feature in the process of installation of Visual Studio. The utility resides at:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin\

It become available within Developer Command Prompt for VS 2015, which can be executed from Start Menu:

Visual Studio 2015 \ Visual Studio Tools \ Developer Command Prompt for VS2015

If you want to make it available in the regular command prompt, then add the utility's location to the PATH environment variable on your machine.

Answer 6

Visual Studio Commmunity 2017 - dumpbin.exe became available once I installed the C++ profiling tools in Modify menu from the Visual Studio Installer.