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Iaito – A Qt and C++ GUI for radare2 reverse engineering framework

171 points by adsche 10y ago

Insanity 10y ago
> I had never coded Qt nor C++ until I started Iaitō, Well, a project like that is surely a good way to just jump right in and learn it! Kudos for that!
martell 10y ago
I just want to say this is awesome, have always been looking for examples of how to do QT ui that just looks right. When you are adding windows support drop by the msys2 irc channel on OFTC. We have support for qt5 using mingw with premade packages available in pacman. A lot of effort went into qt5 support by alexey.
- _pmf_ 10y ago
  Out of interest: how do your packages differ from the official (MinGW-backed) build at https://www.qt.io/download-open-source/#section-2 https://www.qt.io/download-open-source/#section-2 ?
  - jsheard 10y ago
    I'm not him, but the official Qt MinGW builds don't have 64-bit or static variants. MSYS2 has both.
  - martell 10y ago
    MSVC is the main target for windows for qt5. They do provide a mingw version to support the community of devs and are great for accepting code upstream. With most projects however mingw targets are often somewhat neglected and broken even with release versions in some subtle ways. Our Mingw packages are actually used more broadly by devs on a daily basis and tested regularly by a package manager with other projects that depend on qt5. Fixes end up in msys2 before they reach qt5 upstream because of that, some times we have too many as you can see here. https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-qt5 https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-... We also have static builds and 64bit support for the mingw-w64 target as previously mentioned by jsheard
- mrexodia 10y ago
  I already added windows support with msvc yesterday.
Longhanks 10y ago
Really appreciate the choice of Qt and not Electron.
- crudbug 10y ago
  True, I feel electron stack is like a cancer for native apps.
  - adamnemecek 10y ago
    It's a false dichotomy. The people who use electron are generally not people who know Qt. So the choice isn't app in electron vs app in qt but app in electron vs no app at all.
    - wjoe 10y ago
      It depends. Obviously if you're an experienced front end web developer then Electron is an easy choice, and the benefits of using your existing knowledge probably outweighs the speed/resource benefits of a native app, especially for something simple. A lot of people think Electron is easy to use for everyone though. I fell into this trap last year, I've been doing HTML/CSS since I was in school, and I'm comfortable enough in JS. But once things started getting complex with my project, I realised I was going to need to use some of the bigger frameworks that I'm not familiar with. I started trying to build something with React, Redux, and all the various things that go with it, got overwhelmed, and gave up. I've recently gone back to the original idea I had, and started from scratch in Qt, with no knowledge of it. It was a bit of a learning curve at the start, but overall the learning experience has been a lot easier than trying to learn the entire current JavaScript ecosystem. I would say Electron is a good choice for JS experts or simple programs, but otherwise I'd recommend at least giving Qt a try.
      - ksherlock 10y ago
        if it's a simple program, why would you want to include a few hundred megabytes of dependencies? Seems like a good opportunity to learn something better.
zython 10y ago
that looks really good, I am really looking forward to using this i think radare has scared a lot of re beginners because the UI was not very intuitive, i'd love to see that change
pikzen 10y ago
That looks absolutely great. Radare2 is amazing software, and this seems like a good GUI for a first release and a massive improvement to current reverse engineering and open source solutions. If the author is lurking around, is it possible to rename the functions listed on the side? I am not at home and cannot test it out.
- josteink 10y ago
  For those who might want a somewhat indirect introduction to radare... Here's something from Linuxconf.au and hacking Thinkpads: https://youtu.be/Fzmm87oVQ6c https://youtu.be/Fzmm87oVQ6c
  - lelandbatey 10y ago
    For those looking for a more direct introduction to radare, you can view a simple walkthrough for analyzing a binary here: https://youtu.be/3NTXFUxcKPc?t=513 https://youtu.be/3NTXFUxcKPc?t=513
boost_ 10y ago
i notice your .ui files have a lot of stylesheets in them, did you edit them by hand or did you use some tool? looks great btw!
- ChajusSaib 10y ago
  I believe he used Qt Creator.
gue5t 10y ago
What's the relationship of this project to Bokken (GTK+ r2 GUI, <https://bitbucket.org/inguma/bokken> https://bitbucket.org/inguma/bokken>)? Is Bokken just dead?
- mi100hael 10y ago
  Seeing as the last commit was Dec. 2015, I think it's safe to say it's dead.
- omegote 10y ago
  Well, there's code of Bokken in this project, so I guess they're basing this project on it.
bbernoulli 10y ago
This is great... I did wonder why Qt 5.3 was used along with QWebView (QWebEngine[View] and friends are the way forward apparently) Hope to see it on windows soon.
asitdhal 10y ago
It's really great. Even if I know Qt and C++, I spent some time in ElectronJS. ElectronJS <<<<<<<<<<<< Qt + WebKit. This javascript is a weird language and killed a lot of time by simply providing many choices, some of which are horrible, but widely used.

171 points by adsche 10y ago

> I had never coded Qt nor C++ until I started Iaitō, Well, a project like that is surely a good way to just jump right in and learn it! Kudos for that!

martell 10y ago

I just want to say this is awesome, have always been looking for examples of how to do QT ui that just looks right. When you are adding windows support drop by the msys2 irc channel on OFTC. We have support for qt5 using mingw with premade packages available in pacman. A lot of effort went into qt5 support by alexey.

_pmf_ 10y ago
Out of interest: how do your packages differ from the official (MinGW-backed) build at https://www.qt.io/download-open-source/#section-2 https://www.qt.io/download-open-source/#section-2 ?
- jsheard 10y ago
  I'm not him, but the official Qt MinGW builds don't have 64-bit or static variants. MSYS2 has both.
- martell 10y ago
  MSVC is the main target for windows for qt5. They do provide a mingw version to support the community of devs and are great for accepting code upstream. With most projects however mingw targets are often somewhat neglected and broken even with release versions in some subtle ways. Our Mingw packages are actually used more broadly by devs on a daily basis and tested regularly by a package manager with other projects that depend on qt5. Fixes end up in msys2 before they reach qt5 upstream because of that, some times we have too many as you can see here. https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-qt5 https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-... We also have static builds and 64bit support for the mingw-w64 target as previously mentioned by jsheard
mrexodia 10y ago
I already added windows support with msvc yesterday.

Longhanks 10y ago

Really appreciate the choice of Qt and not Electron.

crudbug 10y ago
True, I feel electron stack is like a cancer for native apps.
- adamnemecek 10y ago
  It's a false dichotomy. The people who use electron are generally not people who know Qt. So the choice isn't app in electron vs app in qt but app in electron vs no app at all.
  - wjoe 10y ago
    It depends. Obviously if you're an experienced front end web developer then Electron is an easy choice, and the benefits of using your existing knowledge probably outweighs the speed/resource benefits of a native app, especially for something simple. A lot of people think Electron is easy to use for everyone though. I fell into this trap last year, I've been doing HTML/CSS since I was in school, and I'm comfortable enough in JS. But once things started getting complex with my project, I realised I was going to need to use some of the bigger frameworks that I'm not familiar with. I started trying to build something with React, Redux, and all the various things that go with it, got overwhelmed, and gave up. I've recently gone back to the original idea I had, and started from scratch in Qt, with no knowledge of it. It was a bit of a learning curve at the start, but overall the learning experience has been a lot easier than trying to learn the entire current JavaScript ecosystem. I would say Electron is a good choice for JS experts or simple programs, but otherwise I'd recommend at least giving Qt a try.
    - ksherlock 10y ago
      if it's a simple program, why would you want to include a few hundred megabytes of dependencies? Seems like a good opportunity to learn something better.

zython 10y ago

that looks really good, I am really looking forward to using this i think radare has scared a lot of re beginners because the UI was not very intuitive, i'd love to see that change

pikzen 10y ago

That looks absolutely great. Radare2 is amazing software, and this seems like a good GUI for a first release and a massive improvement to current reverse engineering and open source solutions. If the author is lurking around, is it possible to rename the functions listed on the side? I am not at home and cannot test it out.

josteink 10y ago
For those who might want a somewhat indirect introduction to radare... Here's something from Linuxconf.au and hacking Thinkpads: https://youtu.be/Fzmm87oVQ6c https://youtu.be/Fzmm87oVQ6c
- lelandbatey 10y ago
  For those looking for a more direct introduction to radare, you can view a simple walkthrough for analyzing a binary here: https://youtu.be/3NTXFUxcKPc?t=513 https://youtu.be/3NTXFUxcKPc?t=513

boost_ 10y ago

i notice your .ui files have a lot of stylesheets in them, did you edit them by hand or did you use some tool? looks great btw!

ChajusSaib 10y ago
I believe he used Qt Creator.

gue5t 10y ago

What's the relationship of this project to Bokken (GTK+ r2 GUI, <https://bitbucket.org/inguma/bokken> https://bitbucket.org/inguma/bokken>)? Is Bokken just dead?

mi100hael 10y ago
Seeing as the last commit was Dec. 2015, I think it's safe to say it's dead.
omegote 10y ago
Well, there's code of Bokken in this project, so I guess they're basing this project on it.

bbernoulli 10y ago

This is great... I did wonder why Qt 5.3 was used along with QWebView (QWebEngine[View] and friends are the way forward apparently) Hope to see it on windows soon.

asitdhal 10y ago

It's really great. Even if I know Qt and C++, I spent some time in ElectronJS. ElectronJS <<<<<<<<<<<< Qt + WebKit. This javascript is a weird language and killed a lot of time by simply providing many choices, some of which are horrible, but widely used.