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Unicorn Engine
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Unicorn is a lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework
based on [QEMU](http://qemu.org).
Unicorn offers some unparalleled features:
- Multi-architecture: ARM, ARM64 (ARMv8), M68K, MIPS, SPARC, and X86 (16, 32, 64-bit)
- Clean/simple/lightweight/intuitive architecture-neutral API
- Implemented in pure C language, with bindings for Crystal, Clojure, Visual Basic, Perl, Rust, Ruby, Python, Java, .NET, Go, Delphi/Free Pascal, Haskell, Pharo, and Lua.
- Native support for Windows & *nix (with Mac OSX, Linux, *BSD & Solaris confirmed)
- High performance via Just-In-Time compilation
- Support for fine-grained instrumentation at various levels
- Thread-safety by design
- Distributed under free software license GPLv2
Further information is available at http://www.unicorn-engine.org
License
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This project is released under the [GPL license](COPYING).
Compilation & Docs
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See [docs/COMPILE.md](docs/COMPILE.md) file for how to compile and install Unicorn.
More documentation is available in [docs/README.md](docs/README.md).
Contact
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[Contact us](http://www.unicorn-engine.org/contact/) via mailing list, email or twitter for any questions.
Contribute
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If you want to contribute, please pick up something from our [Github issues](https://github.com/unicorn-engine/unicorn/issues).
We also maintain a list of more challenged problems in a [TODO list](https://github.com/unicorn-engine/unicorn/wiki/TODO).
[CREDITS.TXT](CREDITS.TXT) records important contributors of our project.