Failure at cutter_plugin build

[IlabSentuser]

Hi, I am a bit new at this so I might be wrong but when trying to build the cutter plugin an error is shown:

After some digging I found that the line 37 of the CMakeLists states:

find_library(RzYara NAMES rz_yara PATHS "${RIZIN_INSTALL_PLUGDIR}")

I tried changing the above line to make it work for me:

find_library(RzYara NAMES librz_yara.so PATHS "${RIZIN_INSTALL_PLUGDIR}")

After doing so, it worked. I am unsure of why I had to do this change, as I suppose it works for you with what was already set, but I couldn't get it to work. As I am not an expert at it, probably what I did was a hack or something. But I thought I should let you know in case it can become a problem at some point.

Regards.

[IlabSentuser]

I have continue to analyze this and I think I know the reason for my aforementioned problem. Apparently (and to me it makes sense) the issue is on the line 6 of the same file:

set(RIZIN_INSTALL_PLUGDIR "lib/rizin/plugins" CACHE STRING "Directory where to find librz_yara")

I was assuming that '/usr/' was at some point being added to the string or something but after setting some

message(...${RIZIN_INSTALL_PLUGDIR})

and some others to get some insight into the problem I found that it was indeed searching in the wrong folder. I don't get why with my previous change it was 'supposedly' able to find the lib though. I am assuming that on your build systems you have the ./lib directory available or something, but in 'normal' systems it should not be the case. Or maybe I am just wrong and hacking this stuff more.
In any case just what I got so far in case you decide it should get some checking. Regards.

[wargio]

if you do not install the plugin systemwide, then you need something like this

cd rz_libyara

meson --buildtype=release --prefix="~/.local" build
ninja -C build install

cd cutter-plugin
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -G Ninja -DRIZIN_INSTALL_PLUGDIR="../build" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="~/.local" ..
ninja
ninja install

[IlabSentuser]

Hi, I did install it system wide though, however, I am thinking that maybe the fact that I use Arch linux, which has a lightly different folder structure may be part of the problem. Not sure though., but it crossed my mind that maybe the build instructions are accurate for some ubuntu/debian derivative. Will try to check this out later and see if it builds correctly on those distros.

[wargio]

i'm using arch linux and that way of building just works.