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readpe vs bingrep: catalog facts
readpebingrep

Best for: Malware analysts and reverse engineers inspecting Windows executables

Best for: Developers inspecting compiled binaries from the command line

Free

Free and open source under GPL-2.0-or-later.

Free

Free and open source under the MIT license.

Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line Command line
  • Analyzes Portable Executable binaries from the command line
  • Build instructions cover Linux, macOS, and Windows through Cygwin
  • Includes multiple utilities for PE file analysis
  • Inspects ELF, Mach-O, archive, and PE binaries
  • Can demangle symbols
  • Installable through Cargo
  • Windows builds require Cygwin
  • Relocations are not shown properly for all architectures.
  • PE support is debug only.
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: GPL-2.0-or-later License: MIT
Not stated if an account is needed Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline Not stated if it works offline

Sources for readpe

Catalog checked October 8, 2026

Sources for bingrep

Catalog checked October 8, 2026

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