1To install Capstone, you should run `pip install capstone`. 2 3If you would like to build Capstone with just the source distribution, without 4pip, just run `python setup.py install` in the folder with setup.py in it. 5 6In order to use this source distribution, you will need an environment that can 7compile C code. On Linux, this is usually easy, but on Windows, this involves 8installing Visual Studio and using the "Developer Command Prompt" to perform the 9installation. See BUILDING.txt for more information. 10 11If you don't want to build your own copy of Capstone, you can use a precompiled 12binary distribution from PyPI. Saying `pip install capstone` should 13automatically obtain an appropriate copy for your system. If it does not, please 14open an issue at https://github.com/aquynh/capstone and tag @rhelmot - they 15will fix this, probably! 16 17-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18 19Capstone is a disassembly framework with the target of becoming the ultimate 20disasm engine for binary analysis and reversing in the security community. 21 22Created by Nguyen Anh Quynh, then developed and maintained by a small community, 23Capstone offers some unparalleled features: 24 25- Support multiple hardware architectures: ARM, ARM64 (ARMv8), Mips, PPC, Sparc, 26 SystemZ, XCore and X86 (including X86_64). 27 28- Having clean/simple/lightweight/intuitive architecture-neutral API. 29 30- Provide details on disassembled instruction (called “decomposer” by others). 31 32- Provide semantics of the disassembled instruction, such as list of implicit 33 registers read & written. 34 35- Implemented in pure C language, with lightweight wrappers for C++, C#, Go, 36 Java, NodeJS, Ocaml, Python, Ruby & Vala ready (available in main code, 37 or provided externally by the community). 38 39- Native support for all popular platforms: Windows, Mac OSX, iOS, Android, 40 Linux, *BSD, Solaris, etc. 41 42- Thread-safe by design. 43 44- Special support for embedding into firmware or OS kernel. 45 46- High performance & suitable for malware analysis (capable of handling various 47 X86 malware tricks). 48 49- Distributed under the open source BSD license. 50 51Further information is available at http://www.capstone-engine.org 52 53 54[License] 55 56This project is released under the BSD license. If you redistribute the binary 57or source code of Capstone, please attach file LICENSE.TXT with your products. 58