How To Compile, install & run Capstone for Linux, Mac OSX, *BSD and Windows *-*-*-*-*-* Capstone requires no prerequisite packages, so it is easy to compile & install. (0) Tailor Capstone to your need. Out of 4 archtitectures supported by Capstone (Arm, Arm64, Mips & X86), if you just need several selected archs, you can choose which ones you want to compile in by modifying config.mk before going to next steps. By default, all 4 architectures are compiled. (1) Compile from source On *nix (such as MacOSX, Linux & FreeBSD): - To compile for current platform, run either: $ ./compile.sh or: $ make For FreeBSD/OpenBSD, use 'gmake' instread of 'make': $ gmake Then run "./tests/test*" to see the tests disassembling sample code. - On 64-bit OS, run command below to cross-compile Capstone for 32-bit binary: $ ./compile.sh nix32 Then similarly, run "./tests/test*" to see the tests disassembling sample code. (2) Install Capstone on *nix To install Capstone, run: $ sudo make install For FreeBSD/OpenBSD, use 'gmake' instead of 'make': $ sudo gmake install Users are then required to enter root password to copy Capstone into machine system directories. NOTE: The core framework that will be installed by "make install" consist of only following files: /usr/include/capstone/capstone.h /usr/include/capstone/x86.h /usr/include/capstone/arm.h /usr/include/capstone/arm64.h /usr/include/capstone/mips.h /usr/lib/libcapstone.so (for Linux/*nix), or /usr/lib/libcapstone.dylib (OSX) /usr/lib/libcapstone.a (3) Cross-compile 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 $ ./compile.sh cross-win32 - To cross-compile Windows 64-bit binary, simply run $ ./compile.sh cross-win64 Resulted files "capstone.dll" and "tests/test*.exe" can then be used on Windows machine. (4) Compile on Windows with Cygwin To compile under Cygwin gcc-mingw-w64-i686 or x86_64-w64-mingw32 run: - To compile Windows 32-bit binary under Cygwin, simply run $ ./compile.sh cygwin-mingw32 - To compile Windows 64-bit binary under Cygwin, simply run $ ./compile.sh cygwin-mingw64 (5) Compile with clang By default, gcc is used as compiler. To use "clang" compiler instead, run command below: $ ./compile.sh clang (6) Language bindings So far, Python, Ruby, Ocaml, Java, C# and Go are supported by bindings. Look for the bindings under directory bindings/, and refer to README file of corresponding languages.