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IDA Pro

Angelo Azevedo edited this page Jun 25, 2026 · 2 revisions

IDA Pro

IDA Pro is an industry-standard interactive disassembler and debugger, widely used for software reverse engineering.

Nix Integration

In this configuration, IDA Pro is integrated via the ida-pro-overlay flake input.

This overlay allows you to declaratively configure and install your licensed copy of IDA Pro into the Nix store.

Features

  • Automated Fetching: It can handle downloading the installer (if hosted privately) or wrapping a local installation.
  • Dependency Management: It ensures that all necessary dependencies, like Python 3, PyQt5, and Hex-Rays decompilers, are properly linked and available in the NixOS environment, avoiding the common "missing shared library" errors on Linux.

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