Build libpatchfinder from scratch.md

How to build libpatchfinder on macOS with Brew

You just need Brew from brew.sh. macOS Monterey or higher is recommended.

Steps

Clone everything you need with git (this will be your build order too):

• libgeneral: https://github.com/tihmstar/libgeneral
• libplist: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libplist
• img4tool: https://github.com/tihmstar/img4tool
• img3tool: https://github.com/tihmstar/img3tool
• libinsn: https://github.com/tihmstar/libinsn
• libpatchfinder: https://github.com/tihmstar/libpatchfinder

Why do I use libplist from libimobiledevice rather than Homebrew repository? Because libplist on Homebrew is version 2.2 (head repo is not libimobiledevice github + not tested), lower than the required libplist >= 2.3.0 from img{3,4}tool.

Install packages with brew:

• autoconf
• automake
• libtool
• pkg-config
• python

Build everything with these commands:

$ cd <project>
$ ./autogen.sh
$ make install
# go back and build the next project
# imagine you're in a for-loop:)
$ cd ..

If you see Permission error, use sudo make install instead of make install.

If you encountered an error and want to try if your solution worked or not, run ./autogen.sh.

All projects you build are automake projects, which is used mostly on Linux/BSD. It works like meson: parse + check dependencies, then generate make files.

Happy hacking!