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Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework
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Import IDA database #2921

Closed Martmists-GH closed 3 years ago

Martmists-GH commented 3 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I'm continuing some work on projects that have long been abandoned by the original authors, and while they used IDA, I simply don't have the $2k to get IDA Pro, so I cannot use the supplied XML Exporter (as the project uses a non-x86 architecture)

Describe the solution you'd like Add a way to import .idb files in ghidra.

Describe alternatives you've considered The only other alternative is to purchase IDA Pro just to export to Ghidra, which would cost me a quarter of my savings and should not be considered a good solution.

aerosoul94 commented 3 years ago

I don't think they're going to add an entire IDA database loader. IDA uses a proprietary (closed source) format for their databases that changes from time to time. You could try using this: https://github.com/williballenthin/python-idb

You'd have to write a script using that library that generates the xml that can be imported into ghidra.

ryanmkurtz commented 3 years ago

Supporting the .idb format is outside of the scope of the Ghidra project.

non-bin commented 7 months ago

@ryanmkurtz did you ever get this working?

ryanmkurtz commented 7 months ago

No, we still have no plans to support this.