Building Processor Modules

The process for building and installing an IDA processor module is very similar to the process for building plug-ins and loaders, with one major difference that, if not followed, can result in the inability of IDA to utilize your processor. Some minor differences in the build process include these:

  1. File extensions for processors are .w32/.w64 on Windows, .ilx/ilx64 on Linux, and .imc/.imc64 on OS X platforms.

  2. The build scripts for the SDK’s example processors (as well as our own) store newly created processor binaries into <SDKDIR>/bin/procs.

  3. Processor modules are installed by copying the compiled processor binary to <IDADIR>/procs.

  4. Windows processor modules are required to use a customized MS-DOS stub[138] supplied with ...

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