Finding Offsets of Local Symbols in Shared Libraries Programmatically on OS X

Question

I need to find the offset of a local symbol in a shared library on OS X. Local symbol as in non-exported symbol. Therefore dyld(\"symbol_name\") will not work.

Answer 1

Another possibility (what I ended up using) is Apple's private CoreSymbolication framework:

void *resolve_private(const char *symbol_owner, const char *symbol_to_resolve)
{
    task_t targetTask;
    int err = task_for_pid(mach_task_self(), getpid(), &targetTask);
    if (err) {
        fprintf(stderr, "couldn't get my Mach task\n");
        return NULL;
    }

    CSSymbolicatorRef targetSymbolicator;

    targetSymbolicator = CSSymbolicatorCreateWithTaskFlagsAndNotification(targetTask,
                                                                              kCSSymbolicatorTrackDyldActivity,
                                                                          ^(uint32_t     notification_type, CSNotificationData data) {
                                                                          });
    if(CSIsNull(targetSymbolicator)) {
        fprintf("CSSymbolicatorCreateWithTaskFlagsAndNotification failed\n");
        return NULL;
    }

    __block CSSymbolOwnerRef symbolOwner = kCSNull;
    CSSymbolicatorForeachSymbolOwnerWithNameAtTime(targetSymbolicator,
                                                   symbol_owner,
                                                   kCSNow,
                                                   ^(CSSymbolOwnerRef owner) {
                                                       symbolOwner = owner;
                                                   });
    if (CSIsNull(symbolOwner)) {
        CSRelease(targetSymbolicator);
        fprintf("CSSymbolicatorForeachSymbolOwnerWithNameAtTime failed\n");
        return NULL;
    }

    __block uintptr_t p = (uintptr_t)NULL;
    CSSymbolOwnerForeachSymbol(symbolOwner, ^(CSSymbolRef symbol) {
        const char *symbol_name = CSSymbolGetMangledName(symbol);
        if (0 == strcmp(symbol_name, symbol_to_resolve)) {
            p = CSSymbolGetRange(symbol).location;
        }
    });

    CSRelease(targetSymbolicator);
    if ((uintptr_t)NULL == p) {
        fprintf("symbol not found\n");
        return NULL;
    } else {
        return (void *)p;
    }
}