wtf is cutter-deps?

rizinorg/cutter-deps — explained in plain English

Analysis updated 2026-08-05 · repo last pushed 2026-06-30

★ 5MakefileAudience · developerComplexity · 4/5MaintainedSetup · hard

Mindmap

mindmap
  root((cutter-deps))
    What it does
      Builds dependencies for Cutter
      Automates compiling libraries
      Saves manual setup time
    Tech stack
      Makefile
      CMake
      Shell scripts
    Use cases
      Local Cutter development
      Contributing to Cutter
      Consistent builds across OS
    Audience
      Cutter developers
      Open source contributors
    Scope
      Cutter support only
      Not general-purpose

mindmap root((cutter-deps)) What it does Builds dependencies for Cutter Automates compiling libraries Saves manual setup time Tech stack Makefile CMake Shell scripts Use cases Local Cutter development Contributing to Cutter Consistent builds across OS Audience Cutter developers Open source contributors Scope Cutter support only Not general-purpose

Why would anyone build with this?

REASON 1

Build all required libraries for Cutter in one step instead of compiling each manually.

REASON 2

Set up a local development environment for contributing to the Cutter project.

REASON 3

Ensure consistent dependency versions across different operating systems when building Cutter from source.

What's in the stack?

MakefileCMakeShell scripts

How it stacks up

	rizinorg/cutter-deps	labstack/docker	xingrz/android_device_meizu_m1892
Stars	5	4	4
Language	Makefile	Makefile	Makefile
Last pushed	2026-06-30	2018-06-26	2020-03-16
Maintenance	Maintained	Dormant	Dormant
Setup difficulty	hard	moderate	hard
Complexity	4/5	2/5	4/5
Audience	developer	developer	developer

Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.

How do you spin it up?

Difficulty · hard Time to first run · 1h+

Requires compiling multiple native libraries from source across potentially different operating systems, which can be error-prone and time-consuming.

The README does not mention a license, so it is unclear what permissions are granted for using or modifying this code.

Wtf does this do

Cutter-deps is a helper project that builds the underlying software pieces needed to run Cutter, a reverse-engineering tool for analyzing compiled programs. Reverse-engineering software like Cutter relies on a number of separate libraries and components to function. Gathering and building all of those pieces from scratch can be a time-consuming and error-prone task, especially across different operating systems. This project automates that work with build scripts so the right versions of each dependency are compiled and ready to go. The people who would use this are developers who work on Cutter itself or contributors who want to build the application from source code on their own machine. Rather than hunting down each required library individually, they can run these scripts to get everything set up in one go. It is a behind-the-scenes utility aimed at making the development process smoother for the Cutter team. The README does not go into detail on exactly which dependencies are built or what platforms are supported. The project is intentionally narrow in scope: it exists solely to support Cutter and is not meant to be a general-purpose dependency manager.

Yoink these prompts

Prompt 1

Run the cutter-deps build scripts to compile all required libraries for Cutter on my machine and tell me where the output files are placed.

Prompt 2

I'm trying to build Cutter from source, walk me through using cutter-deps to prepare all the necessary dependencies first.

Prompt 3

Show me how to clone and run cutter-deps so I can start contributing to Cutter development with all dependencies ready to go.

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