Consider replacing udis with iced-x86

[LunNova]

iced-x86 is a pure rust disassembler, udis relies on a c compiler.

If you're ok making this replacement I can try to PR it.

[Hpmason]

That'd be great! Switching to iced-x86, which is more actively maintained would also avoid issues we've run into like with slice-pool

[vars1ty]

Any updates on this? Just ran into an issue where I can't compile my project at all thanks to libudis86-sys errors.

[polloloco]

Same here, libudis86-sys wont compile for me when trying to build for the x86_64-pc-windows-msvc target from a linux host (something about memset function not found I believe)

[Hpmason]

Same here, libudis86-sys wont compile for me when trying to build for the x86_64-pc-windows-msvc target from a linux host (something about memset function not found I believe)

I can't reproduce the issue on my machine, is there any more information you could provide about libudis86-sys failing to compile?

[polloloco]

Yes of course, this is the error I'm getting

  cargo:warning=clang-16: warning: unknown argument ignored in clang-cl: '-includestring.h' [-Wunknown-argument]
  cargo:warning=libudis86/udis86.c(47,3): error: call to undeclared library function 'memset' with type 'void *(void *, int, unsigned long long)'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
  cargo:warning=  memset((void*)u, 0, sizeof(struct ud));
  cargo:warning=  ^
  cargo:warning=libudis86/udis86.c(47,3): note: include the header <string.h> or explicitly provide a declaration for 'memset'
  cargo:warning=1 error generated.
  exit status: 1

I'm crosscompiling from alpine linux to windows msvc target using clang-cl, pretty much following this guide (I've adapted it to my CI workflow): https://jake-shadle.github.io/xwin/

This issue seems to be the exact same error I'm getting: https://github.com/rust-cross/cargo-xwin/issues/60

Right now my workaround is using this patch by placing this into my Cargo.toml, it works:

[patch.crates-io]
libudis86-sys = { git = 'https://github.com/vars1ty/libudis86-sys.git' }

[Hpmason]

Ah, I see what's wrong. libudis86-sys uses a flag -includestring.h in the build.rs file. Problem is, clang expects --includestring.h, so it's parsed correctly as an argument. The cc crate probably adds the additional - based on target or host machine, so cross compilation confuses it.

[Hpmason]

I'm going to start working on this issue. @LunNova If you've already began or plan on working on this let me know, and I'll let you finish it.

[LunNova]

I have a branch, I'll push it after work tonight. It may have a safety issue because iced-x86's decoder needs a byte slice for the entire range of instructions you're going to decode, more details will be in the draft PR.