install_make.txt

Please read "readme.txt" before reading this file!


Preparing the build environment on MS Windows
---------------------------------------------

  Prerequisites
  =============

  In addition to the compiler specified in readme.txt, Cygwin is required
  on MS Windows. It is available from:

    https://www.cygwin.com/

  Make sure to install the 32-bit version of Cygwin (setup-x86.exe) and to
  install the 'make' package.


  Build environment
  =================

  On MS Windows, you may build the SDK using either the Cygwin shell or the
  Command Prompt (either cmd.exe or a Developer Command Prompt for Visual
  Studio).

  If you wish to use the Cygwin shell to build the SDK, start it with:

    > C:\cygwin\cygwin.bat

  If you wish to use the Command Prompt, you must add Cygwin's bin directory
  to your PATH:

    > set PATH=C:\cygwin\bin;%PATH%

  You should then navigate to IDA's SDK directory, for example:

    > cd C:\idasdk

  The MS Windows build automatically generates a configuration file from the
  top-level directory of the SDK. To build this configuration file directly,
  invoke make from the top-level directory with:

    C:\idasdk>make env

  or, in a cygwin shell:

    /cygdrive/c/idasdk $ make env

  If this file is not generated, you will hit this error message:

    cl : Command line error D8022 : cannot open '../../x64_win_vc_32.cfg'


  Preparing the SDK
  =================

  The SDK provides a linker wrapper under the 'bin' directory. You may have to
  set the executable flag on the 'bin\ld.exe' binary.

  You must add the SDK's bin directory to your PATH.

  On MS Windows' Command Prompt:

    C:\idasdk>set PATH=C:\idasdk\bin;%PATH%

  or, in a cygwin shell:

    /cygdrive/c/idasdk $ export PATH=/cygdrive/c/idasdk/bin:$PATH

    (please note that the separator is ':' here, not ';' as it would in cmd.exe)


Preparing the build environment on Linux and Mac OS X
-----------------------------------------------------

  You must add the SDK's bin directory to your PATH.

    $ export PATH=~/idasdk/bin:$PATH


Target platform
---------------

  The target platform must be specified using one of the following environment
  variables:

    - MS Windows: __NT__
    - Linux:      __LINUX__
    - Mac OS X:   __MAC__

  If no target platform is specified, the build defaults to MS Windows (__NT__).

  It is a good idea to specify the platform directly on your ~/.bashrc file:
    - MS Windows (Cygwin):
      export __NT__=1
    - Linux:
      export __LINUX__=1
    - Mac OS X:
      export __MAC__=1


How to build the SDK from the command-line
------------------------------------------

  All source files are the same for all platforms and are compiled using the
  same makefiles. The build commands are different between operating systems.


  On Linux and Mac OS X
  =====================

  It should suffice to invoke 'make' directly:

    make

  If you did not export the target platform's environment variable, you may
  specify the target in the command line, for example:

    make __LINUX__=1

  To build for IDA64 (64-bit ea_t size):

    make __EA64__=1

  Please note that both ida32 and ida64 are 64-bit applications.

  To build 32-bit debug servers, you must set the __X86__ variable. This can
  be achieved in the command line with:

    make __X86__=1

  You may also run the 'idamake.pl' script instead of 'make'. It is a post-
  processing script for make, and will prevent the printing of some warnings
  which cannot be disabled in the compiler. For example, there is this warning
  from gcc:

    warning: format ‘%a’ expects argument of type ‘double’, but argument 2 has type ‘ea_t {aka unsigned int}’ [-Wformat=]

  There is also an environment option IDAMAKE_SIMPLIFY which can be passed to
  'idamake.pl', which turns on filtering of compiler command line.

  Some examples:
    make __LINUX__=1                    -- non-optimized linux build
    make NDEBUG=1 __MAC__=1             -- optimized mac build
    make NDEBUG=1 __NT__=1 __EA64__=1   -- optimized ida64 windows build
    IDAMAKE_SIMPLIFY=1 idamake.pl [...] -- filter build system output


  On MS Windows
  =============

  The build target is selected by using special bat files, present in the bin/
  directory

    mo.bat  - will build components for ida.exe
    mmo.bat - will build components for ida64.exe

  Note that 'm*.bat' files accept a '-j' argument, to parallelize the build:

  E.g,

    C:\idasdk>mo.bat -j 12

  or, in a cygwin shell:

    /cygdrive/c/idasdk $ mo.bat -j 12

Aliases
-------

  Creating aliases for the build commands is a good idea. I have the following
  in my .bashrc file:

  export __LINUX__=1
  export PATH=~/idasdk/bin:$PATH
  alias mx='make 2>&1'
  alias mmx='__EA64__=1 make 2>&1'