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I am trying to use HexRay's decompiler API, however having trouble due to its lack of documentation. Is there any means so That I can get to see the Python implementation of decompiler API?

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  • The actual source files should be contained in your IDA's python distribution (idaapi.py, idc.py, ..).. I fear there is no decent documentation
    – Nordwald
    Commented Jan 20, 2017 at 19:14
  • Those are stubs generated by SWIG
    – sherlock
    Commented Jan 20, 2017 at 19:38
  • yes, but they are still the "Python implementation of decompiler API".
    – Igor Skochinsky ♦
    Commented Jan 23, 2017 at 8:43
  • I guess that the actual logic is wrapped inside corresponding .so libraries
    – sherlock
    Commented Jan 23, 2017 at 8:44

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As far as I remember IDA license allows reverse engineering of IDA itself. If suggestion that same rule is applicable to the decompiler is correct - the most approachable way to see the implementation is to reverse engineer the plugin - despite the fact that at least part of it should be significantly obfuscated.

There is, however, additional source of the information you can use, the documentation about C++ decompiler SDK is opened and can be found here.

It includes the source of hexrays.hpp file (here) with decent amount of comments that may be helpful.

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