headless mode

[blacktop]

Is it possible to run this plugin in a headless mode with Ghidra? If so can you give an example of how to do that please?

[ubfx]

Hi, currently it's only accessible via the GUI since I haven't worked in headless mode myself.

[staringatphones]

I am also interested in being able to script BinDiffHelper. Happy to help test and provide feedback if that's helpful.

[TheZ3ro]

any news? I would be happy to contribute

[gemesa]

So what exactly do you want to accomplish in headless mode? You can create .BinExport files in headless mode using this official Ghidra script (which I implemented btw). Then you can run bindiff from the command line to generate .BinDiff files which you can import into BinDiffHelper. In BinDiffHelper you will need to determine based on context and your analysis which functions you want to import. This process isnt something you can easily automate, nor would you want to. If you check the BinDiff manual you will see some algorithms with poor-to-medium performance. What happens if you blindly import all functions determined to be similar by these algorithms? You might mislead yourself and import function names that were incorrectly deemed similar by a weak algorithm. How do you decide on the similarity and confidence values above which you want to import functions? 0.8 for both? 0.9 for both? You might miss similar functions or import dissimilar ones (for small functions there is a higher chance of false positives and again some algorithms have poor performance).