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edb is a cross platform x86/x86-64 debugger. It was inspired byOllydbg, but aims to function on x86 and x86-64 as well as multiple OS's. Linux is the only officially supported platform at the moment, but FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OSX and Windows ports are underway with varying degrees of functionality.

edb is available under the GPL 2 license, see the COPYING for details.

NOTE: This README now only covers the most essential documentation, for morecomplete documentation see thewiki

When cloning the repo, please use git's--recursive flag to ensure that the sub-modules will be properly cloned and updated to the correct versions. Here is an example:

git clone --recursive git@github.com:eteran/edb-debugger.git

Compiling edb is generally quite simple. edb currently depends on thefollowing packages:

Many distributions already have packages that satisify these.

Once you have the necessary dependencies installed, there are two options for compiling:

If you plan to just run edb out of the build directory, it's as simple as this:

$ mkdir build$ cd build$ cmake ..$ make$ ./edb

If you would like to properly install edb on the system for all users, it's only a little different:

$ mkdir build$ cd build$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/ ..$ make$ make install$ edb

Basic installation is simple, you may run

$ make install

In which case the plugins will be installed in/usr/local/lib/edb and the binarieswill be installed in/usr/local/bin/.