MAQAO (Modular Assembly Quality Analyzer and Optimizer)

Outline

Pre requisites
Installation
Documentation
Running MAQAO tools

Pre-requisites

The following packages and softwares have to be installed before launching the installation:

• gcc
• g++
• cmake (>= 2.8.8, available at http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html)
• glibc-static
• libstdc++-static

If you choose the original lua package (and not luajit) then you will also need:

• libreadline-dev
• libncurses-dev

Installation

MAQAO is a cmake based project.
Go into the MAQAO folder
If no "build" directory is present, create it
>$ mkdir build
Go into the build folder:
>$ cd build
Then run the following commands:
>$ cmake ..
>$ make

Documentation

The documentation generation is optional and need several softwares:

• for the LUA API documentation, luadoc is needed (http://keplerproject.github.com/luadoc/)
• for the C API documentation, doxygen is needed (http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/)

To build the documentation, go in the build directory and type:
>$ make doc
Generated files are available trough a web browser. The LUA API documentation is called
DeveloperGuide.html and the C API documentation is called CoreDeveloperGuide.html. Both
are located in MAQAO/doc

Running MAQAO modules

A MAQAO module can be launched with the following command:
>$ maqao <module> [args]
For instance to list the functions in the binary /path_to/my_binary:
>$ maqao analyze --list-functions /path_to/my_binary

The -h option provides help for a given module.

To execute user-defined MAQAO/Lua scripts, use:
>$ maqao <lua-script> [args]
Note that MAQAO scripts are Lua scripts that can use the MAQAO Lua API extensions (see documentation for more information)

For general help on MAQAO:
>$ maqao -h