Building Maat from source

[NormalDev]

I'm trying to build maat from source on Windows 10 64bit, i'm using MSYS2 to download z3, LIEF and GMP.
I've also downloaded Ghidra a few months ago and i'd like to use the sleigh files already present in the Ghidra installation to build maat.

When i run

     cmake -S . -B build -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release

I get this error

 CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:117 (find_package):
   Could not find a package configuration file provided by "sleigh" with any
   of the following names:

  sleighConfig.cmake
  sleigh-config.cmake

Add the installation prefix of "sleigh" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
"sleigh_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files. If "sleigh"
provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has been
installed.

I've tried to change the CMakeLists.txt to point to the sleigh executable in the ghidra installation.

  find_package(sleigh REQUIRED PATHS "C:\Program Files (x86)\ghidra_9.2.2_PUBLIC_20201229\ghidra_9.2.2_PUBLIC\Ghidra\Features\Decompiler\os\win64")

But i get the same error.

Is it possible to do it or do i have to use the source provided in https://github.com/lifting-bits/sleigh?

[ekilmer]

Yes, you must install https://github.com/lifting-bits/sleigh and point sleigh_DIR to the installed CMake Config file.

Alternatively, you could pass -Dmaat_USE_EXTERNAL_SLEIGH=OFF during CMake configuration to avoid building lifting-bits/sleigh yourself. This will use the submodule in Maat's repo (remember to run git submodule update --init).

If you want to use Ghidra's upstream sleigh files, you could set your path via the API (maybe @Boyan-MILANOV has an example snippet for this), or you could just replace the sleigh files that Maat installed. They are located at <install_prefix>/share/maat/processors.

The Dockerfile might also be helpful for relatively straight-forward instructions on how to build from scratch, even though it's Linux.

[NormalDev]

Thanks a lot, i ended up pointing sleigh_DIR to https://github.com/lifting-bits/sleighsleigh/cmake/modules and changing sleighCompile.cmake to sleighConfig.cmake.

[ekilmer]

Interesting! I hadn't considered that, but if it's working for you, then great!