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Unable to build without IDA

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cmake
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Start with cmake/BinDiffDeps.cmake and CMakeLists.txt, then inspect build/binexport/cmake/FindIdaSdk.cmake around line 173. Reproduce the failure with -DBINEXPORT_ENABLE_IDAPRO=OFF and trace how the Ida SDK lookup is reached. Done means the project configures successfully without requiring libida64.so when IDAPRO is disabled.

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Description

bug

Running cmake with -DBINEXPORT_ENABLE_IDAPRO=OFF results in the error:

CMake Error at build/binexport/cmake/FindIdaSdk.cmake:173 (find_path):
  Could not find IdaSdk_LIBPATH64 using the following files: libida64.so
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  cmake/BinDiffDeps.cmake:32 (find_package)
  CMakeLists.txt:49 (include)
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Java
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