quipper is a library to read linux kernel perf data. After parsing a perf.data file it can convert it to a protobuf for further manipultation. It can also do other things like remap addresses preserving shared-object offsets, garbage-collect MMAP events, etc. To build without the ChromeOS chroot: 1. Install pre-requisites. install_prerequisites.sh does this for you. 2. Build using make -f Makefile.external.