1*9a0e4156SSadaf EbrahimiCapstone Engine 2*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi=============== 3*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 4*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi[](https://travis-ci.org/aquynh/capstone) 5*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi[](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/aquynh/capstone/branch/master) 6*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi[](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/capstone) 7*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi[](https://pepy.tech/project/capstone) 8*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 9*9a0e4156SSadaf EbrahimiDeprecation 10*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi=========== 11*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 12*9a0e4156SSadaf EbrahimiThe [`master`](https://github.com/capstone-engine/capstone/tree/master) branch is deprecated. 13*9a0e4156SSadaf EbrahimiAll forward development should be based on the [`next`](https://github.com/capstone-engine/capstone/tree/next) branch. 14*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 15*9a0e4156SSadaf EbrahimiTo clone a fresh checkout with the `next` branch: 16*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 17*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi git clone -b next https://github.com/capstone-engine/capstone 18*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 19*9a0e4156SSadaf EbrahimiTo change to the `next` branch in an existing checkout: 20*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 21*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi git checkout next 22*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 23*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi---- 24*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 25*9a0e4156SSadaf EbrahimiWe moved the original historical repo of Capstone from https://github.com/aquynh/capstone to an organization, where we can add more maintainers to the project, and push Capstone development forward. 26*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 27*9a0e4156SSadaf EbrahimiOur new home is https://github.com/capstone-engine/capstone 28*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 29*9a0e4156SSadaf EbrahimiNov 8th, 2021. 30*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 31*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi---- 32*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 33*9a0e4156SSadaf EbrahimiCapstone is a disassembly framework with the target of becoming the ultimate 34*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimidisasm engine for binary analysis and reversing in the security community. 35*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 36*9a0e4156SSadaf EbrahimiCreated by Nguyen Anh Quynh, then developed and maintained by a small community, 37*9a0e4156SSadaf EbrahimiCapstone offers some unparalleled features: 38*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 39*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi- Support multiple hardware architectures: ARM, ARM64 (ARMv8), Ethereum VM, M68K, 40*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi Mips, MOS65XX, PPC, Sparc, SystemZ, TMS320C64X, M680X, XCore and X86 (including X86_64). 41*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 42*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi- Having clean/simple/lightweight/intuitive architecture-neutral API. 43*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 44*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi- Provide details on disassembled instruction (called “decomposer” by others). 45*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 46*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi- Provide semantics of the disassembled instruction, such as list of implicit 47*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi registers read & written. 48*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 49*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi- Implemented in pure C language, with lightweight bindings for D, Clojure, F#, 50*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi Common Lisp, Visual Basic, PHP, PowerShell, Emacs, Haskell, Perl, Python, 51*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi Ruby, C#, NodeJS, Java, GO, C++, OCaml, Lua, Rust, Delphi, Free Pascal & Vala 52*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi (ready either in main code, or provided externally by the community). 53*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 54*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi- Native support for all popular platforms: Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, 55*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi Linux, \*BSD, Solaris, etc. 56*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 57*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi- Thread-safe by design. 58*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 59*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi- Special support for embedding into firmware or OS kernel. 60*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 61*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi- High performance & suitable for malware analysis (capable of handling various 62*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi X86 malware tricks). 63*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 64*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi- Distributed under the open source BSD license. 65*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 66*9a0e4156SSadaf EbrahimiFurther information is available at http://www.capstone-engine.org 67*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 68*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 69*9a0e4156SSadaf EbrahimiCompile 70*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi------- 71*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 72*9a0e4156SSadaf EbrahimiSee COMPILE.TXT file for how to compile and install Capstone. 73*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 74*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 75*9a0e4156SSadaf EbrahimiDocumentation 76*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi------------- 77*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 78*9a0e4156SSadaf EbrahimiSee docs/README for how to customize & program your own tools with Capstone. 79*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 80*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 81*9a0e4156SSadaf EbrahimiHack 82*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi---- 83*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 84*9a0e4156SSadaf EbrahimiSee HACK.TXT file for the structure of the source code. 85*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 86*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 87*9a0e4156SSadaf EbrahimiLicense 88*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi------- 89*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimi 90*9a0e4156SSadaf EbrahimiThis project is released under the BSD license. If you redistribute the binary 91*9a0e4156SSadaf Ebrahimior source code of Capstone, please attach file LICENSE.TXT with your products. 92