Boomerang vs Miasm
Boomerang
github.comMiasm
miasm.reSide by side
| Figure | Boomerang | Miasm |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Reverse Engineering Tools | 8.5 (#6) | 7.2 (#40) |
| Architectures | The GitHub project lists support for x86 IA-32, PPC, and ST20 architectures. | It supports assembling and disassembling X86, ARM, MIPS, SH4, and MSP430. |
| File formats | The project lists ELF, PE, DOS MZ, DOS/4GW LE, and Mach-O file formats. | It supports opening, modifying, and generating 32-bit and 64-bit PE and ELF files in little-endian and big-endian formats. |
| Integrations | The README lists CMake, Qt5, Capstone, GNU bison, GNU flex, and optional CCache, Doxygen, and Python 3 as build tools or dependencies. | The project lists IDA plugins and tools that use Miasm, including Sibyl, R2M2, CGrex, and ethRE. |
| License | The repository describes Boomerang as BSD licensed. | Miasm is distributed under the GPLv2 license. |
| Purpose | Boomerang is an open-source machine-code decompiler that attempts to turn executable files into high-level source code. | Miasm is a free and open source reverse engineering framework for analyzing, modifying, and generating binary programs. |
| Requirements | The README lists a 64-bit operating system and a C++17 compiler among the build prerequisites. | The listed software requirements are Python 3.10 or newer, future, and pyparsing 2.4.1 or newer. |
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In their own words
Boomerang
Boomerang is an open-source decompiler that translates supported machine-code binaries into C source code. It supports x86 (IA-32 only), PPC, and ST20 architectures, and accepts ELF, PE, DOS MZ, DOS/4GW LE, and Mach-O files. Users can run it as a command-line tool or a GUI application. The project describes its license as BSD, and the software is free. Build instructions cover Linux, macOS, and Windows, but compiling requires a 64-bit operating system and a C++17 compiler; 32-bit systems are not supported. Documented prerequisites include CMake, Qt5, Capstone, GNU bison, and GNU flex. Precompiled packages are available for release versions, although the project recommends building the development branch from source. Unit and regression tests are provided, but the README says the regression test suite cannot be built on Windows. The maker describes the release as intended for developers and experimenters and warns that large-binary decompilation may disappoint. Decompiled output does not recreate the original source file and may differ from it. The project directs users to its GitHub issue tracker for bug reports.