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Extracting apple .pkg files on Linux
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In order to extract such a package following software is requried:

  • 7zip for general .pkg

  • pbzx for Payload files Github Source

    • xar Github Source
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      • download optional dependency libbzip2 / bzip2 and enable it in xar compilation configuration. This enables use or xar for extracting .pkg
    • compile with gcc pbzx.c -o pbzx -llzma -lxar

After all is installed and working, extract .pkg with 7zip, go into extracted directory and go into desired directory containing payload file. Then run pbzx -n /path/to/file | cpio -i in order to extract Payload file

NOTE: Bom files are quite possibly bzip2 compressed / encoded.

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FenixC4 commented Oct 24, 2023

Then you can compile this project. It will allow you to compile macos binaries on linux after you extract take macOS_SDK from the extracted .pkg file

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Remember to run autogen before configure

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FenixC4 commented Oct 26, 2023

Then you can compile this project. It will allow you to compile macos binaries on linux after you extract take macOS_SDK from the extracted .pkg file

remember to compile it with tapi support

also to solve dsymutil problem just use this

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FenixC4 commented Oct 26, 2023

Also when compiling anything remember to check if all compiled or installed libraries are detected by ldconfig. If no then add their directory path to ld configuration

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