mkelf - Generate a binary ELF from textual description

Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
26 hours	Segments: normalize and validate.	Sunil Nimmagadda
	While here mark mandatory and optional fields.
28 hours	Too much for a simple script.	Sunil Nimmagadda

29 hours	Refactor header configuration handling.	Sunil Nimmagadda
	- Mark optional fields and normalize them on load. - Validate (work in progress) required fields and their values. - Make sure that errors point to useful location in the config file.
30 hours	Prevent defining globals in config.	Sunil Nimmagadda

30 hours	Input is optional, reads from stdin if not specified.	Sunil Nimmagadda

30 hours	Program termination handles resource cleanup.	Sunil Nimmagadda

31 hours	Sprinkle some todo markers.	Sunil Nimmagadda

31 hours	Attach the respective metatables to loaded the config.	Sunil Nimmagadda
	This simplifies calling pack() on respective tables.
33 hours	Multi return values instead of a table.	Sunil Nimmagadda

44 hours	Refactor: Move to an elf module.	Sunil Nimmagadda
	While here, define a elf.d.lua to help author type check configuration file.
3 days	Mark it as to-be-closed instead of explicit close.	Sunil Nimmagadda

7 days	Refactor for ease of test cases later.	Sunil Nimmagadda

7 days	Mark it binary for non POSIX.	Sunil Nimmagadda

7 days	Make these valid values for a 64 bit elf.	Sunil Nimmagadda

7 days	Fix a few typo.	Sunil Nimmagadda

9 days	Iterate and pack each program header entry.	Sunil Nimmagadda

9 days	Leave the annotation name as is but rename variable for clarity.	Sunil Nimmagadda

9 days	Program headers are generally a list.	Sunil Nimmagadda

9 days	Make this local to main.	Sunil Nimmagadda

9 days	Move code around.	Sunil Nimmagadda

9 days	Remove object style pack and just call the function.	Sunil Nimmagadda

9 days	Pack program header.	Sunil Nimmagadda

10 days	Annotate these functions as well.	Sunil Nimmagadda

10 days	Make it compact, just pack once.	Sunil Nimmagadda

10 days	Refactor to a local function, to be reused.	Sunil Nimmagadda

10 days	Match names to that of libelf.	Sunil Nimmagadda

12 days	All caps for constants.	Sunil Nimmagadda

12 days	Populate some Machine constants.	Sunil Nimmagadda

13 days	Extract into ElfHeader_pack function.	Sunil Nimmagadda

2026-10-09	Fixup rest of the ElfHeader fields.	Sunil Nimmagadda

2026-10-09	Sprinkle some annotations.	Sunil Nimmagadda
	Let's define an ElfHeader type.
2026-10-09	Let's begin.	Sunil Nimmagadda