In the next release the framework will be linked against cocoa. It should be noted that the Qt framework deployed with IDA 6.0 was linked against carbon (the configuration defaults to it). configure -debug-and-release -cocoa -arch x86 -qtnamespace QT -prefix /Users/Shared/Qt/4.6.3 configure -debug-and-release -platform linux-g++ -no-qt3support -qtnamespace QT -prefix /home/daniel/Qt/4.6.3Īnd on OSX. Open the Visual C++ x86 prompt, go to the Qt source directory and type: configure -debug-and-release -platform win32-msvc2008 -no-qt3support -qtnamespace QT
IDA 6.0, for instance, has been compiled with Visual C++ 2008. On Windows the same runtime has to be used. It is necessary to build the Qt environment, because IDA is shipped with a custom version of Qt which wraps its classes inside the QT namespace (we’ll see later why that is so). That being said, there might be cases where the developer/company needs or prefers to access the Qt framework directly from C++ and that is what is going to be covered in this article. Moreover, there’s no need to recompile a plugin for every major Qt release deployed with idaq.
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The first one is that the code once written will work on every platform without additional work. The advantages of this approach are many. Since accessing Qt from C++ requires setting up a development environment on every platform the developer wishes to deploy his plugin, one might take into consideration using PySide to access the Qt environment. While this is still possible in idaq, it is not advised, as it binds the code of the plugin to Windows and forces idaq to switch from alien widgets to system windows (more about that later).
In idag the developer could use the Windows/.NET environment to go beyond the limits of the IDA SDK. However, there are cases when this is not enough. The API environment provided by IDA is vast and gives the plugin writer the capability to display graphical elements such as colored text views, graphs, forms and choosers. Generally speaking most plugins for IDA can be written by using only the provided SDK.
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