Building IDAPython From Sources

Prerequisites

[ Tested versions are in brackets ]

• IDA and IDA SDK [5.1]

http://www.datarescue.com/idabase/

• Python [2.4.4, 2.5.1]

http://www.python.org/

• Simplified Wrapper Interface Generator (SWIG) [1.3.31]

http://www.swig.org/

• Unix utilities (GNU patch on Windows):

http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/ or http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ or http://www.cygwin.com/

• GCC on Linux and Mac OS X [4.1.3]

Comes with your distribution

• Microsoft Visual C on Windows Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/

Building

Make sure all the needed tools (compiler, swig) are on the PATH. To make the default build settings work you should unpack the IDAPython source and IDA Pro SDK into the following directory structure:

swigsdk-versions/5.1/  - version 5.1 of the IDA Pro SDK
idapython/             - IDAPython source code

• Patch the SDK using GNU Patch with one of patches from patches/ directory. You will have to use the -P option depending on which directory you patch from.
• On Mac OS X copy libida.dylib from the IDA install directory to swigsdk-versions/5.1/libgcc32.mac/
• Build the plugin

python build.py

• Install the components as described in README.txt

It is possible to build the plugin for different Python versions by running build.py with the corresponding Python binary.