unicorn/COMPILE.TXT

This documentation explains how to compile, install & run Unicorn on MacOSX,
Linux, *BSD & Solaris. We also show steps to cross-compile for Microsoft Windows.

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[0] Dependencies

Unicorn requires few dependent packages as followings

- For Mac OS X, "pkg-config" and "glib" are needed.
  Brew users can install "pkg-config" and "glib" with:

      $ brew install pkg-config glib

- For Linux, glib2-dev is needed.
  Ubuntu/Debian users can install this with:

      $ sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev

- For Windows, cross-compile using Mingw. Mingw-glib2 is needed.

    On Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit, do:

        1. Download DEB packages for Mingw64 from https://launchpad.net/~greg-hellings/+archive/ubuntu/mingw-libs/+build/2924251

        2. To cross-compile for Windows 32-bit, install Mingw with (ignore all the warnings):

            $ sudo dpkg -i --force-depends mingw64-x86-glib2_2.31.0_all.deb

           To cross-compile for Windows 64-bit, install Mingw with:

            $ sudo dpkg -i --force-depends mingw64-x64-glib2_2.31.0_all.deb



[1] Tailor Unicorn to your need.

  Out of 6 archtitectures supported by Unicorn (Arm, Arm64, M68K, Mips, Sparc,
  & X86), if you just need several selected archs, choose which ones you want
  to compile in by editing "config.mk" before going to next steps.

  By default, all 6 architectures are compiled.

  The other way of customize Unicorn without having to edit config.mk is to
  pass the desired options on the commandline to ./make.sh. Currently,
  Unicorn supports 4 options, as followings.

  - UNICORN_ARCHS: specify list of architectures to compiled in.
  - UNICORN_STATIC: build static library.
  - UNICORN_SHARED: build dynamic (shared) library.
  - UNICORN_QEMU_FLAGS: specify extra flags for qemu's configure script

  To avoid editing config.mk for these customization, we can pass their values to
  make.sh, as followings.

  $ UNICORN_ARCHS="arm aarch64 x86" ./make.sh

  NOTE: on commandline, put these values in front of ./make.sh, not after it.

  For each option, refer to docs/README for more details.



[2] Compile from source

  On *nix (such as MacOSX, Linux, *BSD, Solaris):

  - To compile for current platform, run:

        $ ./make.sh

  - On 64-bit OS, run the command below to cross-compile Unicorn for 32-bit binary:

        $ ./make.sh nix32



[3] Install Unicorn on *nix (such as MacOSX, Linux, *BSD, Solaris)

  To install Unicorn, run:

    $ sudo ./make.sh install

    For FreeBSD/OpenBSD, where sudo is unavailable, run:

        $ su; ./make.sh install

  Users are then required to enter root password to copy Unicorn into machine
  system directories.

  Afterwards, run ./samples/sample_all.sh to see the sample emulations.


  NOTE: The core framework installed by "./make.sh install" consist of
  following files:

    /usr/include/unicorn/unicorn.h
    /usr/include/unicorn/x86.h
    /usr/include/unicorn/arm.h
    /usr/include/unicorn/arm64.h
    /usr/include/unicorn/mips.h
    /usr/include/unicorn/ppc.h
    /usr/include/unicorn/sparc.h
    /usr/include/unicorn/m68k.h
    /usr/include/unicorn/platform.h
    /usr/lib/libunicorn.so (for Linux/*nix), or /usr/lib/libunicorn.dylib (OSX)
    /usr/lib/libunicorn.a



[4] Cross-compile for Windows from *nix

  To cross-compile for Windows, Linux & gcc-mingw-w64-i686 (and also gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64
  for 64-bit binaries) are required.

    - To cross-compile Windows 32-bit binary, simply run:

        $ ./make.sh cross-win32

    - To cross-compile Windows 64-bit binary, run:

        $ ./make.sh cross-win64

  Resulted files unicorn.dll, unicorn.lib & samples/sample*.exe can then
  be used on Windows machine.

  To run sample_x86.exe on Windows 32-bit, you need the following files:
   - unicorn.dll
   - /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libglib-2.0-0.dll
   - /usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/4.8/libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll
   - /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/lib/libwinpthread-1.dll

  To run sample_x86.exe on Windows 64-bit, you need the following files:
   - unicorn.dll
   - /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libglib-2.0-0.dll
   - /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/4.8/libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll
   - /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/lib/libwinpthread-1.dll

  Then run either "sample_x86.exe -32" or "sample_x86.exe -64" to test emulators for X86 32-bit or X86 64-bit.
  For other architectures, run "sample_xxx.exe" found in the same directory.



[5] Cross-compile for iOS from Mac OSX.

  To cross-compile for iOS (iPhone/iPad/iPod), Mac OSX with XCode installed is required. 

    - To cross-compile for ArmV7 (iPod 4, iPad 1/2/3, iPhone4, iPhone4S), run:
        $ ./make.sh ios_armv7

    - To cross-compile for ArmV7s (iPad 4, iPhone 5C, iPad mini), run:
        $ ./make.sh ios_armv7s

    - To cross-compile for Arm64 (iPhone 5S, iPad mini Retina, iPad Air), run:
        $ ./make.sh ios_arm64

    - To cross-compile for all iDevices (armv7 + armv7s + arm64), run:
        $ ./make.sh ios

  Resulted files libunicorn.dylib, libunicorn.a & tests/test* can then
  be used on iOS devices.



[6] Cross-compile for Android

  To cross-compile for Android (smartphone/tablet), Android NDK is required.
  NOTE: Only ARM and ARM64 are currently supported.

    $ NDK=/android/android-ndk-r10e ./make.sh cross-android arm
  or
    $ NDK=/android/android-ndk-r10e ./make.sh cross-android arm64

  Resulted files libunicorn.so, libunicorn.a & tests/test* can then
  be used on Android devices.



[7] Compile on Windows with MinGW (MSYS2)

  To compile with MinGW you need to install MSYS2: https://msys2.github.io/ 
  Follow the install instructions and don't forget to update the system packages with:

        $ pacman --needed -Sy bash pacman pacman-mirrors msys2-runtime

     Then close MSYS2, run it again from Start menu and update the rest with:

        $ pacman -Su
  
  Finally, compile Unicorn with the next steps:

        - To compile Windows 32-bit binary with MinGW, run:
                $ pacman -S make
                $ pacman -S pkg-config
                $ pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-glib2
                $ pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-toolchain
                $ ./make.sh cross-win32

        - To compile Windows 64-bit binary with MinGW, run:
                $ pacman -S make
                $ pacman -S pkg-config
                $ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-glib2
                $ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain
                $ ./make.sh cross-win64

  Resulted files unicorn.dll, unicorn.lib & samples/sample*.exe can then
  be used on Windows machine.

  To run sample_x86.exe on Windows 32-bit, you need the following files:
   - unicorn.dll
   - %MSYS2%\mingw32\bin\libiconv-2.dll
   - %MSYS2%\mingw32\bin\libintl-8.dll
   - %MSYS2%\mingw32\bin\libglib-2.0-0.dll
   - %MSYS2%\mingw32\bin\libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
   - %MSYS2%\mingw32\bin\libwinpthread-1.dll

  To run sample_x86.exe on Windows 64-bit, you need the following files:
   - unicorn.dll
   - %MSYS2%\mingw64\bin\libiconv-2.dll
   - %MSYS2%\mingw64\bin\libintl-8.dll
   - %MSYS2%\mingw64\bin\libglib-2.0-0.dll
   - %MSYS2%\mingw64\bin\libgcc_s_seh-1.dll
   - %MSYS2%\mingw64\bin\libwinpthread-1.dll


[8] By default, "cc" (default C compiler on the system) is used as compiler.

    - To use "clang" compiler instead, run the command below:

        $ ./make.sh clang

    - To use "gcc" compiler instead, run:

        $ ./make.sh gcc



[9] To uninstall Unicorn, run the command below:

        $ sudo ./make.sh uninstall



[10] Language bindings

  So far, only Python is supported by bindings in the main code.
  Look for the bindings under directory bindings/, and refer to README file
  of corresponding languages.


[11] Unit tests

  Automated unit tests use the cmocka unit testing framework (https://cmocka.org/).
  It can be installed in most Linux distros using the package manager, e.g.
  `sudo yum install libcmocka libcmocka-devel`, or you can easily build and install it from source.
    
  You can run the tests by running `make test` in the project directory.