Install guide¶
Things to know about installing yara-ctypes.
PyPi install¶
Simply run the following:
pip install yara
If you do not have pip, you can click here to find the latest download package.
Unzip than install:
python setup.py install
Download and install the master¶
You can find the master copy of yara-ctypes on github.
Here is how to install from the master:
wget -O master.zip https://github.com/mjdorma/yara-ctypes/zipball/master
unzip master.zip
cd mjdorma-yara-ctypes-XXX
python setup.py install
Missing a dll? Try installing MS VC++ 2010 redistributable package¶
The shipped dlls’ were built using Visual Studio 2010. If you do not have the
appropriate runtime already installed you will get an error message pop
up saying you are missing msvcr100.dll
. Download and install the
appropriate redistribution package for your platform:
Failing to import libyara¶
At this point you need to figure out if the shipped library file is compatible with your system/platform. You may need to build your own libyara library from scratch.
See Building libyara-1.6 for yara-ctypes for more information.