capstone/COMPILE_CMAKE.TXT

This documentation explains how to compile Capstone with CMake, focus on
using Microsoft Visual C as the compiler.

To compile Capstone on *nix, see COMPILE.TXT.

To compile Capstone on Windows using Visual Studio, see COMPILE_MSVC.TXT.

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This documentation requires CMake & Windows SDK or MS Visual Studio installed on
your machine.

Get CMake for free from http://www.cmake.org.



(0) Tailor Capstone to your need.

  Out of archtitectures supported by Capstone, if you just need several selected archs,
  run "cmake" with the unwanted archs disabled (set to 0) as followings.

  - CAPSTONE_ARM_SUPPORT: support ARM. Run cmake with -DCAPSTONE_ARM_SUPPORT=0 to remove ARM.
  - CAPSTONE_AARCH64_SUPPORT: support AARCH64. Run cmake with -DCAPSTONE_AARCH64_SUPPORT=0 to remove AARCH64.
  - CAPSTONE_M680X_SUPPORT: support M680X. Run cmake with -DCAPSTONE_M680X_SUPPORT=0 to remove M680X.
  - CAPSTONE_M68K_SUPPORT: support M68K. Run cmake with -DCAPSTONE_M68K_SUPPORT=0 to remove M68K.
  - CAPSTONE_MIPS_SUPPORT: support Mips. Run cmake with -DCAPSTONE_MIPS_SUPPORT=0 to remove Mips.
  - CAPSTONE_MOS65XX_SUPPORT: support MOS65XX. Run cmake with -DCAPSTONE_MOS65XX_SUPPORT=0 to remove MOS65XX.
  - CAPSTONE_PPC_SUPPORT: support PPC. Run cmake with -DCAPSTONE_PPC_SUPPORT=0 to remove PPC.
  - CAPSTONE_SPARC_SUPPORT: support Sparc. Run cmake with -DCAPSTONE_SPARC_SUPPORT=0 to remove Sparc.
  - CAPSTONE_SYSZ_SUPPORT: support SystemZ. Run cmake with -DCAPSTONE_SYSZ_SUPPORT=0 to remove SystemZ.
  - CAPSTONE_XCORE_SUPPORT: support XCore. Run cmake with -DCAPSTONE_XCORE_SUPPORT=0 to remove XCore.
  - CAPSTONE_TRICORE_SUPPORT: support TriCore. Run cmake with -DCAPSTONE_TRICORE_SUPPORT=0 to remove TriCore.
  - CAPSTONE_X86_SUPPORT: support X86. Run cmake with -DCAPSTONE_X86_SUPPORT=0 to remove X86.
  - CAPSTONE_X86_TMS320C64X: support TMS320C64X. Run cmake with -DCAPSTONE_TMS320C64X_SUPPORT=0 to remove TMS320C64X.
  - CAPSTONE_X86_M680X: support M680X. Run cmake with -DCAPSTONE_M680X_SUPPORT=0 to remove M680X.
  - CAPSTONE_X86_EVM: support EVM. Run cmake with -DCAPSTONE_EVM_SUPPORT=0 to remove EVM.
  - CAPSTONE_X86_WASM: support Web Assembly. Run cmake with -DCAPSTONE_WASM_SUPPORT=0 to remove WASM.
  - CAPSTONE_BPF_SUPPORT: support BPF. Run cmake with -DCAPSTONE_BPF_SUPPORT=0 to remove BPF.
  - CAPSTONE_RISCV_SUPPORT: support RISCV. Run cmake with -DCAPSTONE_RISCV_SUPPORT=0 to remove RISCV.
  - CAPSTONE_ARCHITECTURE_DEFAULT: Whether architectures are enabled by default.
      Set this of OFF with -DCAPSTONE_ARCHITECTURE_DEFAULT=OFF to disable all architectures by default.
      You can then enable them again with one of the CAPSTONE_<ARCH>_SUPPORT options.

  By default, all architectures are compiled in.


  Besides, Capstone also allows some more customization via following macros.

  - CAPSTONE_USE_SYS_DYN_MEM: change this to OFF to use your own dynamic memory management.
  - CAPSTONE_BUILD_DIET: change this to ON to make the binaries more compact.
  - CAPSTONE_X86_REDUCE: change this to ON to make X86 binary smaller.
  - CAPSTONE_X86_ATT_DISABLE: change this to ON to disable AT&T syntax on x86.
  - CAPSTONE_DEBUG: change this to ON to enable extra debug assertions.

  By default, Capstone use system dynamic memory management, and both DIET and X86_REDUCE
  modes are disabled. To use your own memory allocations, turn ON both DIET &
  X86_REDUCE, run "cmake" with: -DCAPSTONE_USE_SYS_DYN_MEM=0 -DCAPSTONE_BUILD_DIET=1 -DCAPSTONE_X86_REDUCE=1


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



(1) CMake allows you to generate different generators to build Capstone. Below is
    some examples on how to build Capstone on Windows with CMake.

  (*) You can let CMake select a generator for you. Do:
  
      mkdir build
      cd build
      cmake ..
      
    This last command is also where you can pass additional CMake configuration flags
    using `-D<key>=<value>`.
    For a debug build add `-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug`.
    To export `compile_commands.json` add `-DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=ON`.
    
    Then to build use:
    
      cmake --build . --config [Release/Debug]
      

  (*) To build Capstone using Nmake of Windows SDK, do:

      mkdir build
      cd build
      ..\nmake.bat

  After this, find the samples test*.exe, capstone.lib & capstone.dll
  in the same directory.



  (*) To build Capstone using Visual Studio, choose the generator accordingly to the
  version of Visual Studio on your machine. For example, with Visual Studio 2013, do:

      mkdir build
      cd build
      cmake -G "Visual Studio 12" ..

  After this, find capstone.sln in the same directory. Open it with Visual Studio
  and build the solution including libraries & all test as usual.



(2) You can make sure the prior steps successfully worked by launching one of the
  testing binary (test*.exe).

(3) You can also enable just one specific architecture by passing the architecture name
  to either the cmake.sh or nmake.bat scripts. e.g.:
  
    ../cmake.sh x86

  Will just target the x86 architecture. The list of available architectures is: ARM,
  AARCH64, M68K, MIPS, PowerPC, Sparc, SystemZ, XCore, x86, TMS320C64x, M680x, EVM, MOS65XX,
  WASM, BPF, RISCV.
  
(4) You can also create an installation image with cmake, by using the 'install' target.
  Use:

    cmake --build . --config Release --target install

  This will normally install an image in a default location (`C:\Program Files` on Windows),
  so it's good to explicitly set this location when configuring CMake. Use: `-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=image`
  for instance, to put the installation in the 'image' subdirectory of the build directory.