Chapter 1: Getting Started with Ghidra

In this introductory chapter, we will provide an overview of Ghidra in some respects. Before starting, it would be convenient to know how to acquire and install the program. This is obviously something simple and trivial if you want to install a release version of the program. But I guess you probably want to know this program in depth. In which case, I can tell you in advance that it is possible to compile the program by yourself from the source code.

Since the source code of Ghidra is available and ready to be modified and extended, you will probably also be interested in knowing how it is structured, what kind of pieces of code exist, and so on. This is a great opportunity to discover the enormous possibilities ...

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