This was an ad-hoc re-exporting of BAP. The project now provides an official set of C bindings, which, while not stable yet, are more stable than these were.

tl;dr go use bap-bindings, this is no longer maintained

libbap

C Bindings for BAP

libbap is intended to provide static and shared library versions of BAP as a series of C functions, suitable to be called from other languages.

Goals

• Export most (if not all) of BAP's capabilities to C.
• Require no OCaml tooling or libraries once installed.
• Be relatively efficient - avoid copies where possible, this is meant to be a thin layer around BAP

Build/Install

oasis setup
./configure
make
make install

Usage

• Call bap_init before calling any function.

Threading

You have two basic options:

1. Make all calls to libbap from the thread in which bap_init was initially called.
2. Be aware that calls into libbap all block each other. This is due to a limitation in the OCaml runtime.

• The call to bap_init also acts as a call to bap_thread_register followed by bap_acquire
• Every thread which calls into libbap must call bap_thread_register first.
• Any calls into libbap must be bracketed by bap_acquire and bap_release calls.
• The lock must not be held by a thread calling bap_thread_unregister or bap_thread_register
• Any thread which registered with libbap via bap_thread_register must call bap_thread_unregister before termination.

Warning

This project is currently extremely nascent, and likely does not have any functionality that you want yet. This warning will be removed at first release or when enough functionality is present to be useful.