Third-Party Libraries for Signature Analyst

This repository contains the third-party libraries ("tools") that the Signature Analysis application uses. Building these third-party libraries requires the following versions of the following applications running on 64-bit Microsoft Windows 10 or greater:

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 or greater
• Python 3.5.2 or greater

This repository contains the following directories.

####build The build directory contains Python scripts to build each of the third-party libraries. Each build script requires two command-line arguments:

• Bitness: either x86, to build a 32-bit version of the library, or x64, to build a 64-bit version of the library
• Configuration: either debug, to build a debug version of the library, or release, to build a release version of the library

For example, to build the CURL library, there is a build_curl.py Python script. The following commands show how to run this script to build all four bitness and configuration combinations of this library:

• 32-bit Debug: python.exe build_curl.py x86 debug
• 32-bit Release: python.exe build_curl.py x86 release
• 64-bit Debug: python.exe build_curl.py x64 debug
• 64-bit Release: python.exe build_curl.py x64 release

Moreover, there is a "master" build file that calls each of build scripts to build all four configurations of every third-party library:

    python.exe build.py

The Python build scripts copy their build outputs into the sdk directory, which the next section describes.

####sdk The sdk directory contains the built files, organized into the following subdirectory structure:

• x86
  • bin: contains 32-bit debug and release EXE files
  • lib: contains 32-bit debug and release LIB, DLL, and PDB files
• x64:
  • bin: contains 64-bit debug and release EXE files
  • lib: contains 64-bit debug and release LIB, DLL, and PDB files

By convention, the file names of the debug versions of the libraries will have _d suffixes (e.g., libcurl_d.lib), and the file names of the release versions will not have these suffixes (e.g., libcurl.lib).

####src The src directory contains the source code of the third-party libraries.

####tests The tests directory contains source code to build applications that use, demonstrate, and test the built third-party libraries, along with scripts to build and run these applications.

The diagram at the following link shows the hierarchy of the directories and subdirectories in this repository:

    Directory Structure of Signature Analyst Third-Party Tools