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. *-*-*-*-*-* 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_ARM64_SUPPORT: support ARM64. Run cmake with -DCAPSTONE_ARM64_SUPPORT=0 to remove ARM64. - 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_X86_SUPPORT: support X86. Run cmake with -DCAPSTONE_X86_SUPPORT=0 to remove X86. - CAPSTONE_TMS320C64X_SUPPORT: support TMS320C64X. Run cmake with -DCAPSTONE_TMS320C64X_SUPPORT=0 to remove TMS320C64X. - CAPSTONE_EVM_SUPPORT: support EVM. Run cmake with -DCAPSTONE_EVM_SUPPORT=0 to remove EVM. - CAPSTONE_ARCHITECUTRE_DEFAULT: Whether architectures are enabled by default. Set this of OFF with -DCAPSTONE_ARCHITECUTRE_DEFAULT=OFF to dissable all architectures by default. You can then enable them again with one of the CAPSTONE__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. 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=`. Then to build use: cmake --build . --config Release (*) 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, ARM64, M68K, MIPS, PowerPC, Sparc, SystemZ, XCore, x86, TMS320C64x, M680x, EVM, MOS65XX. (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.