Premier PE Library

A modern C++20 library for parsing and manipulating Windows Portable Executable (PE) files.

Overview

Premier PE Library provides a clean interface for working with Windows PE file formats. The library is designed to handle DOS headers, NT headers, Sections, Data directories and more with a focus on simplicity and performance.

Features

The Following Features this Library currently offers will be listed below

- Full PE32 and PE32+ (x86 / x64) parsing support
- DOS header, NT headers, optional headers, and section table access
- Import and export table enumeration (by name and ordinal)
- Relocation table parsing with block and entry detail
- TLS directory inspection and callback enumeration
- Resource tree parsing with version info and manifest extraction
- Rich header parsing with checksum validation and tool identification
- RVA, VA, and file offset conversion utilities
- Unicode and ASCII String extraction
- Debug directory parsing

Current Project Structure

PE Library/
├── premier/
│   ├── PE.hpp              # Main library header
│   ├── PE.cpp              # Main library implementation
└── example.cpp             # Usage examples

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Visual Studio 2022 (or later with C++20 support)
• Windows SDK 10.0
• Platform Toolset v145 or later

Building

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/NtProtectVirtualMemory/PE-Library.git

2. Open PE Library.slnx in Visual Studio

3. Select the correct configuration:

   • Release
   • x64

4. Build the solution (Ctrl+Shift+B)

Output Directories

• Binaries: bin/PE Library/{Platform}/{Configuration}/
• Intermediates: bin/intermediates/PE Library/{Platform}/{Configuration}/

Basic Usage

#include <cstdio>
#include "PE.hpp"

int main() {
    PE::Image image("path\to\file.exe");
    
    // Your code here
    
    return 0;
}

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.