Ida Sdk

IDA SDK

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A Software Development Kit for extending [IDA](https://hex-rays.com/ida-pro/), the state-of-the-art binary code analysis tool. The C++ SDK allows you to build custom plugins, loaders, processors, and scripts that integrate directly into IDA. This project also includes [IDAPython SDK](src/plugins/idapython/README.md) allowing you to write plugins using Python.

Documentation

• IDA Documentation
• C++ Developer’s Guide
• SDK reference
• Additional README files in subdirectories provide details for processor modules, loaders, and other components.

Contributing

The SDK is currently closed to external contributions, as it requires tight integration with our proprietary IDA Pro workflows and follows an internal roadmap with specific architectural decisions.

However, feel free to report bugs or suggest features via [Issues](https://github.com/HexRaysSA/ida-sdk/issues).

Versioning

Git tags use [semver](https://semver.org/)-compatible syntax to track both IDA product releases and independent SDK updates:

Tag pattern	Meaning
vX.Y.Z-release	SDK snapshot shipped with an IDA release
vX.Y.Z-sdk.N	SDK-only update between IDA releases (build system, docs, examples, etc.)

`X.Y.Z` matches the IDA version that the SDK targets. The pre-release suffix distinguishes the type of change:

• -release marks the exact SDK state shipped with a given IDA version.
• -sdk.N marks subsequent SDK improvements that still target the same IDA version. N increments with each update.

**Sort order.** Semver compares pre-release identifiers lexically, so `-release` sorts before `-sdk.N` (`r` < `s`), which g