STM8-IDA

STM8 IDA processor module for STMicroelectronics' STM8 series of microcontrollers. Known working on IDA 7.6 and the IDA 7.6 SDK.

Installation & Building Instructions

Linux

Get the IDA SDK from https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/support/download/
Move this directory to $SDKDIR/modules/ (yes, move, symlinks won’t work)
Run make
Run sudo make install
The processor type STMicroelectronics STM8" should now show up in IDA.

Visual Studio Building Instructions

Place this repo in a folder in idasdk/module/

Example file path of stm8.hpp:

D:\idasdk72\module\STM8-IDA\stm8.hpp
Open Visual Studio solution file or use the Visual Studio project creation instructions
Ctrl+B to build
You may see a linker warning:

warning LNK4197: export 'LPH' specified multiple times; using first specification

Don't worry about it.
Copy the output file /x64/Debug/stm8.dll to your IDA proc directory
Copy the STM8 config file stm8.cfg to your IDA cfg directory
Start IDA :)
The processor type is "STMicroelectronics STM8"

Visual Studio 2019 Project Creation Instructions

For IDA 7.2 SDK

Even though ida32 is used to work on 32-bit files, it is also an x64 application. Therefore, ida32 plugins must be built for the x64 platform.

Open Visual Studio
In the 2019 version, you may have to click "Continue without code ->"
File > New > Project From Existing Code...
What type of project would you like to create: Visual C++

Press Next
Project file location: the folder containing this repo

Project name: STM8-IDA or whatever you like

Press Finish
Once the project is initialized, go to Project > Properties or hit Alt+F7
Open the Configuration Manager
Active solution platform: select "x64"
Press Close
General > Configuration Type

Set to Dynamic Library (.dll)
C/C++ > General > Additional Include Directories

Enter the SDK's include folder eg. C:\idasdk\include;

Or use a relative path such as ../../include
Linker > Command Line > Additional options

Write: /EXPORT:LPH
C/C++ > Preprocessor > Preprocessor Definitions

Add to beginning: NT;
Linker > Input > Additional Dependencies

Add to beginning: \lib\x64_win_vc_32\ida.lib;

Or use a relative path such as ..\..\lib\x64_win_vc_32\ida.lib;

Known issues

Autocomments spam the output window with a warning:

Exception in IDP Hook function: SWIG director type mismatch in output value of type 'int' in method 'ev_get_autocmt'
TypeError: SWIG director type mismatch in output value of type 'int' in method 'ev_get_autocmt'

I don't know how to fix this.

No stack variable tracing :(