https://github.com/homebrew/ruby-macho

🔩 A pure-Ruby library for parsing Mach-O files.
https://github.com/homebrew/ruby-macho

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🔩 A pure-Ruby library for parsing Mach-O files.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/homebrew/ruby-macho
• Owner: Homebrew
• License: mit
• Created: 2015-07-15T21:40:05.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-05-17T08:11:17.000Z (6 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-19T08:40:19.177Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: apple, homebrew, mach, macos, ruby, ruby-gem, ruby-library
• Language: Ruby
• Homepage: https://rubygems.org/gems/ruby-macho
• Size: 1.42 MB
• Stars: 235
• Watchers: 17
• Forks: 33
• Open Issues: 17
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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A Ruby library for examining and modifying Mach-O files.

### What is a Mach-O file?

The [Mach-O file format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach-O) is used by macOS

and iOS (among others) as a general purpose binary format for object files,

executables, dynamic libraries, and so forth.

### Installation

ruby-macho can be installed via RubyGems:

```bash

$ gem install ruby-macho

```

### Documentation

Full documentation is available on [RubyDoc](http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/ruby-macho/).

A quick example of what ruby-macho can do:

```ruby

require 'macho'

file = MachO::MachOFile.new("/path/to/my/binary")

# get the file's type (object, dynamic lib, executable, etc)

file.filetype # => :execute

# get all load commands in the file and print their offsets:

file.load_commands.each do |lc|

  puts "#{lc.type}: offset #{lc.offset}, size: #{lc.cmdsize}"

end

# access a specific load command

lc_vers = file[:LC_VERSION_MIN_MACOSX].first

puts lc_vers.version_string # => "10.10.0"

```

### What works?

* Reading data from x86/x86_64/PPC Mach-O files

* Changing the IDs of Mach-O and Fat dylibs

* Changing install names in Mach-O and Fat files

* Adding, deleting, and modifying rpaths.

### What needs to be done?

* Unit and performance testing.

### Contributing, setting up `overcommit` and the linters

In order to keep the repo, docs and data tidy, we use a tool called [`overcommit`](https://github.com/sds/overcommit)

to connect up the git hooks to a set of quality checks.  The fastest way to get setup is to run the following to make

sure you have all the tools:

```shell

gem install overcommit bundler

bundle install

overcommit --install

```

### Attribution

* Constants were taken from Apple, Inc's

[`loader.h` in `cctools/include/mach-o`](https://opensource.apple.com/source/cctools/cctools-973.0.1/include/mach-o/loader.h.auto.html).

(Apple Public Source License 2.0).

* Binary files used for testing were taken from The LLVM Project. ([Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions](test/bin/llvm/LICENSE.txt)).

### License

`ruby-macho` is licensed under the MIT License.

For the exact terms, see the [license](LICENSE) file.