Sylvan

An x86-64 debugger

Building from scratch

Prerequisites

• Linux System (not sure if any linux specific things are used that aren't posix compliant)
• GCC compiler (GNU extensions are used)
• make

Dependencies Installation Guide

This project uses Zydis and Zycore for disassembly and utility functionality. Below are the instructions to set up these dependencies on common Linux distributions.

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Fedora

You can install all required dependencies directly from the official Fedora repositories:

sudo dnf install \
    zydis-devel \
    zycore-c-devel \
    elfutils-libelf-devel \
    libdwarf-devel 

Ubuntu

Step 1: Install Required Tools and Libraries

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y \
    build-essential \
    cmake \
    git \
    libelf-dev \
    libdwarf-dev

Step 2: Build and Install Zycore

git clone https://github.com/zyantific/zycore-c.git
cd zycore-c
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make -j$(nproc)
sudo make install

Step 3: Build and Install Zydis

git clone https://github.com/zyantific/zydis.git
cd zydis
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make -j$(nproc)
sudo make install

Step 4: Update the Linker Cache

sudo ldconfig

Setup and Execution

Build

make

Run

make run

or

./build/sylvan

Clean

make clean

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