HEdit is a small console-based hex editor with a focus on cross-platform reverse engineering. It is designed to run and tested on Windows, Linux, Rasperry Pi and MacOS X.
- Edit up to five files simultaneously
- Highlight differences in visual compare mode
- Script language for visualizing data structures
- Various search modes including search for differences
- 16/32bit Disassembler
- Usable on disk devices (like /dev/sda1)
. ├─ bin The output directory for the binaries (created during build process) ├─ build The build scripts and project files (Makefile, VS2019, etc.) ├─ scripts Some HEdit scripts (see SCRIPT.md) ├─ src The source code (including test sources) ├─ test-data Some test data for the unit tests (you guessed it) └─ tools Tool configurations for additional tools, see below
HEdit should be compatible with every compiler that supports C++14. It was confirmed working with the following compilers:
- Visual Studio 2019 (16.8.3)
- g++ (Debian 4.9.2-10+deb8u2) 4.9.2
- g++ (Debian 8.3.0-6) 8.3.0
- g++ (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04) 9.3.0
- g++ (Raspbian 8.3.0-6+rpi1) 8.3.0
- g++ (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0
The project contains configurations for the following tools:
- Doxygen
You can use the Doxyfile to create a full source code documentation. - Cppcheck
You can use Cppcheck with the included config file to perform a static code analysis. - cpplint
You can use cpplint with the included config file on the .cpp and .hpp files in the src folder.
Assuming your build environment for C++ is ready, just go to ./build/make/ and execute make.
Otherwise you need to install g++, libncurses5-dev and make.
Using Visual Studio, just go to ./build/vs19/ and use the solution file hedit.sln.
You will need to have "C++ build tools" installed.
No, the only dependency is ncurses (and only if not using Windows). For the tests, the Googletest framework is used.
Because the tests are currently only built using the Visual Studio 2019 solution.
Because the project is quite old and was just moved to GitHub recently.
Yes, but only by modifying the source code. You need to change the constant HE_MAX_EDITORS and rebuild HEdit.