BinPAC

BinPAC is a high level language for describing protocol parsers and generates C++ code. It is currently maintained and distributed with the Bro Network Security Monitor distribution, however, the generated parsers may be used with other programs besides Bro.

Download

You can find the latest BinPAC release for download at http://www.bro-ids.org/download.

BinPAC’s git repository is located at git://git.bro-ids.org/binpac.git. You can browse the repository here.

This document describes BinPAC 0.31-9. See the CHANGES file for version history.

Prerequisites

BinPAC relies on the following libraries and tools, which need to be installed before you begin:

• Flex (Fast Lexical Analyzer)

  Flex is already installed on most systems, so with luck you can skip having to install it yourself.

• Bison (GNU Parser Generator)

  Bison is also already installed on many system.

• CMake 2.6.3 or greater

  CMake is a cross-platform, open-source build system, typically not installed by default. See http://www.cmake.org for more information regarding CMake and the installation steps below for how to use it to build this distribution. CMake generates native Makefiles that depend on GNU Make by default

Installation

To build and install into /usr/local:

./configure
cd build
make
make install

This will perform an out-of-source build into the build directory using the default build options and then install the binpac binary into /usr/local/bin.

You can specify a different installation directory with:

./configure --prefix=<dir>

Run ./configure --help for more options.