Using radare2 as a backend

[XVilka]

It will bring you a bunch of the features automatically:

Architectures:

6502, 8051, CRIS, H8/300, LH5801, LH5801, T8200, arc, arm, avr, bf, blackfin, csr, dalvik, dcpu16, gameboy, i386, i4004, i8080, m68k, malbolge, mips, mips, msil, nios II, powerpc, rar, sh, snes, sparc, tms320 (c54x c55x c55+), x86-64, zimg.

File Formats:

bios, dex, elf, elf64, filesystem, java, fatmach0, mach0, mach0-64, MZ, PE, PE+, TE, COFF, plan9, bios, dyldcache, Gameboy and Nintendo DS ROMs

Operating Systems:

Android, GNU/Linux, [Net|Free|Open]BSD, iOS, OSX, QNX, w32, w64, Solaris, Haiku, FirefoxOS

Bindings:

Vala/Genie, Python (2, 3), NodeJS, LUA, Go, Perl, Guile, php5, newlisp, Ruby, Java, OCAML, ...

Debug protocols:

RAP (radare2 internal), native (platform-dependent), gdb remote, windbg remote.

See for yourself: https://github.com/radare/radare2

[emoon]

Thanks for the tip!

Looking at the project it seems interesting but not sure how well it would fit as a backend. A backend needs to support actual debugging while many of the arch listed has disassemble support but no way to actual run any code (like an emulator) is that correct?

[XVilka]

It does have support for the debugging various architectures, see
libr/debug and shlr/gdbr - also emulation support via the our
intermediate language ESIL.
On Jun 17, 2015 11:29 PM, "Daniel Collin" notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks for the tip!

Looking at the project it seems interesting but not sure how well it would
fit as a backend. A backend needs to support actual debugging while many of
the arch listed has disassemble support but no way to actual run any code
(like an emulator) is that correct?

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[XVilka]

Since you've switched to Rust - you can use r2pipe.rs https://github.com/radare/r2pipe.rs
And usage example is in https://github.com/radare/radeco-lib

[emoon]

Sweet! Thanks for the info. Yeah that should make it a bit easier to use actually. It's still on my list to investigate radare2 closer.