Development Workflow

[cdohara]

What is the correct development workflow for someone who prefers incremental testing? I've been doing a gradle buildGhidra to an unzip to a ./ghidraRun to test a change in functionality, but I am feeling there ought to be a way to avoid this overhead....

Any thoughts from the community?

[ryanmkurtz]

Ghidra is developed using Eclipse. Instructions for setting that up are here.

[ryanmkurtz]

If you really don't want to set up Eclipse for some reason, you can do something like this:

1. gradle prepdev buildNatives
2. Make changes to source
3. gradle jar
4. ./Ghidra/RuntimeScripts/Linux/ghidra
Repeat steps 2-4 as needed

If you are changing the decompiler, then you'd need to re-run gradle buildNatives

[cdohara]

Wow! That changed the build time from 3 minutes to 8 seconds!