Portable Installation - pip package or similar

[austinbyers]

Yextend is designed to be compiled from source and invokes a couple of subprocesses (pdfdetach, pdftotext, yara). This makes it challenging to build and run in an isolated environment (e.g. AWS Lambda).

Ideally, yextend could be a pip package (or similar) which could be installed on any platform (much like yara itself).

For reference, the BinaryAlert documentation describes how we were able to get a portable yextend binary: we commented out the yara version check and copied the necessary .so files (but this likely doesn't solve the pdf parsing subprocess calls)

Thanks again for contributing such a useful tool!

[austinbyers]

Another thing that would be super useful: if there were an option to compile with all statically linked libraries. I've experimented with ./configure LDFLAGS="-static", which works, but then compilation fails

[JoseGodinez]

Yextend is designed to be compiled from source and invokes a couple of subprocesses (pdfdetach, pdftotext, yara). This makes it challenging to build and run in an isolated environment (e.g. AWS Lambda).

Ideally, yextend could be a pip package (or similar) which could be installed on any platform (much like yara itself).

For reference, the BinaryAlert documentation describes how we were able to get a portable yextend binary: we commented out the yara version check and copied the necessary .so files (but this likely doesn't solve the pdf parsing subprocess calls)

Thanks again for contributing such a useful tool!

You can use the yextend/dockerize/dockerfiles for installing in any platform