The next building block for my bootloader project is ready! nt-apiset is a parser written in Rust for the API Set Map files of Windows 10 and later versions. API Sets are dependencies of PE executables whose names start with “api-” or “ext-”, e.g. api-ms-win-core-sysinfo-l1-1-0 …

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This release was not planned. I actually wanted to write a parser for Windows apiset DLLs, but quickly found myself implementing the umpteenth string type to handle Windows UTF-16 characters. After having done that work once for nt-hive and another time for ntfs, it was time to refactor the common parts into a crate …

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