cutter/docs/compiling.md

Compiling Cutter

Cutter supports different build systems:

• Building with qmake
• Building with cmake
• Building with meson (see ./meson.py)

Each time in the section below, the prefered method will be explained. For other methods check associated documentation.

Before compiling, note that we also provide binaries available for windows/linux/MacOS X here.

Requirements

• Qt (version differs from time to time but >= 5.6.1 should be fine)
• Radare2 (version changes, see git submodule to check the exact version)
• Python 3.6

Compiling on Linux / OsX

The easy way is to simply run ./build.sh from the root directory, and let the magic happen. The script will use qmake to build Cutter.

If you want to manually use qmake, follow this steps:

mkdir build; cd build
qmake ../src/Cutter.pro
make
cd ..

Compiling on Windows

Additional requirements:

• Visual Studio 2015 or Visual Studio 2017
• Ninja build system
• Meson build system

Download and unpack Ninja to the Cutter source root directory.

Environment settings (example for x64 version):

:: Export MSVC variables
CALL "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x64
:: Add qmake to PATH
SET "PATH=C:\Qt\5.10.1\msvc2015_64\bin;%PATH%"
:: Add Python to PATH
SET "PATH=C:\Program Files\Python36;%PATH%" ``` 
Install Meson:
```batch
python -m pip install meson

To compile Cutter run:

CALL prepare_r2.bat
CALL build.bat

Pass CUTTER_ENABLE_JUPYTER=false argument to build.bat if you want to disable Jupyter support. Use CUTTER_ENABLE_QTWEBENGINE=false argument to disable QtWebEngine support for Jupyter.

It doesn't work!

Check this page for common issues.