112  radare2(1) - Kailash Tool Reference

112.1 radare2

radare2 - UNIX-like reverse-engineering framework and command-line toolset.

Layer CLASSIC
Category c-06-reverse-engineering
Safety class safe
Licence LGPL-3.0-only
Upstream github.com/radareorg/radare2

112.1.1 NAME

radare2 - UNIX-like reverse-engineering framework and command-line toolset.

112.1.2 SYNOPSIS & usage

Derived from the upstream README at generation time; verify against --help where the tool is installed.

git clone https://github.com/radareorg/radare2
radare2/sys/install.sh
preconfigure.bat       REM setup python, meson, ninja
configure.bat          REM run meson b + vs project
make.bat               REM run ninja -C b
prefix\bin\radare2.exe

112.1.3 DESCRIPTION (upstream)

Current git master branch is 6.2.5, next release will be 6.2.6. r2 is a complete rewrite of radare. It provides a set of libraries, tools and plugins to ease reverse engineering tasks. Distributed under LGPLv3, despite each plugin can have different licenses (see r2 -Lj for details) The radare project started as a simple command-line hexadecimal editor focused on forensics. Today, r2 is a full-featured low-level command-line tool with support for scripting with the embedded Javascript interpreter or via r2pipe. r2 can edit files on local hard drives, view kernel memory, and debug programs locally or via a remote gdb/windbg servers. r2’s wide architecture support allows you to ana

112.1.4 CONFIGURATION (detected)

Config-surface markers detected in the upstream README (6 matches, e.g. ci.yml, ci.yml). A full config reference page for this tool is queued under the config-page policy — this line is the detection record, not the page.

112.1.5 SEE ALSO

ref: pin - verified 2026-10-14