Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace is a linker and linker script language specialized to the needs of writing position-independent DLL and COFF loaders.

https://tradecraftgarden.org

Build

Crystal Palace is written in Java and requires Apache Ant to build. The build output is in the build/ folder.

ant clean && ant

Software to demonstrate Crystal Palace outputs is included in the demo/ folder. Build these files with:

cd demo
make clean && make

Environment

Crystal Palace thrives in a Windows Subsystem for Linux environment.

https://tradecraftgarden.org/wslsetup.html

Usage

Use the link script to link a Windows DLL to a position-independent loader (and other resources) using steps provided in a specification file. Specification files are specific to each loader.

./link [loader.spec] [/path/to/dll] [out.bin]

For example:

./link /path/to/loader.spec demo/test.x64.dll out.x64.bin

To try out the same output (on Windows):

./demo/run.x64.exe out.x64.bin

To debug how Crystal Palace parses an object file, use ./coffparse:

./coffparse [file.o]

License

(c) 2025 Raphael Mudge, Adversary Fan Fiction Writers Guild All rights reserved.

Crystal Palace is released under the 3-clause BSD license.

See LICENSE for more information.

Credits

• iced (C) 2018-present iced project and contributors (MIT License)