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  • moatool

    Presentation :

    moatool means Mach-O Archive Tool, As its name suggest it, it’s an utility which handle Mach-O archives, format used by Mac OS X.
    More precisely, moatool allow you to reduce Mach-O archives by stripping the useless platform code.

    Concretely, how it works ?
    I invite you to read the article I wrote about Mach-O archives and also the one where I presented moatool.

    moatool works on Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, 10.6.
    For Snow Leopard, even if the PPC arch is no longer supported, most of the binaries still have code for 2 archs, x86 and x86_64, so there is still a way to gain some place on your HD (for the paranoiacs of the giga).

    moatool is coded in C, and is under the new BSD licence.

    Installation :

    You can grabe the source or the compiled dynamic library.
    For the library I advise you to put it in your $PATH (something like /usr/local/lib) and the header file in /usr/local/include.

    If you want to build the library yourself, I advise you to build a dynamic library and not a static one.
    To build :

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    $ gcc moatool.c -dynamiclib -Wall -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc -arch ppc64 -o libmoatool.dylib
$ cp moatool.h /usr/local/include/
$ cp libmoatool.dylib /usr/local/lib/

    Usage :

    An example is given with the sources and there is also the post where I presented it.

    If you have any remarks, questions, you can contact me : postmaster[at]whine[dot]fr

    Download :

    Sources & Library