Heimdall Kext For Os X

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Advanced Mac OS X users may find it useful to know that KEXT (kernel extensions) can be manually installed. The process of installing kexts manually into OS X is not too difficult if you’re comfortable with the command line, but it is a multi-step process of copying the appropriate.kext file to the appropriate kernel extensions directory, and then using chmod and chown to assign appropriate. Kexts that don't specify a proper value for the OSBundleRequired info dictionary property will not be loaded. As of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), kextd determines from the kernel whether the system has started in safe boot mode, so this flag is no longer necessary (but may be used for testing).

  • 1Linux
    • 1.2Debian based
    • 1.4Generic Linux Instructions
  • 2OSX
  • 3Windows

Linux

  • The kext that is absolutely required VirtualSMC.kext (or FakeSMC.kext) is as aforementioned essential. This kext is what tells macOS 'Yes this is a real mac', emulating the functionality of the SMC on real Macs (hence the name). Without it, no Hackintosh.
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Fedora

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After this step, skip to the instructions for generic Linux distributions below.

Debian based

These instructions are for Debian based distributions including Ubuntu and Linux Mint.

With apt-get

Compiling from source

After this step, skip to the instructions for downloading and compiling below.

Arch Linux

heimdall is available in the official repositories. heimdall-git is available in the AUR for building from source.

Generic Linux Instructions

These are distro-independent instructions.

Installing prerequisites

Use your favourite package manager to install (the development version if your distro has seperate “-dev” packages)of the following pre-requisites:

  1. gcc/g++
  2. make(automake)
  3. libc(glibc)
  4. libusb
  5. qt5
  6. CMake
  7. OpenGL
  8. zlib

Downloading and compiling

Start Heimdall by issuing either heimdall or heimdall-frontend in a terminal.

OSX

Installing prerequisites

  • First make sure you have installed XCode and pkgconfig.
    • There are several different ways you can install pkgconfig, the simplest option is to use Homebrew.

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  • Open a terminal and navigate to the directory you downloaded, or extracted, Heimdall to.
  • Install libusb >= 1.0:
    • The simplest option is to use Homebrew.
    • Alternatively you may download and compile from: http://www.libusb.org/
  • Enter the following commands to compile libpit.
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    • NOTE: There is no need to run “sudo make install”.

Installing heimdall

Kext
  • Enter the following commands to compile and install Heimdall:
    • NOTE: The export line is needed to overcome a compile error with 1.4RC and will hopefully be unnecessary soon.
    • NOTE: Do not be alarmed if the sudo make install ends with: make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-hook'
  • If you haven’t installed the driver before, enter the following:

Installing the Frontend

  • First make sure you have installed XCode from your OS X install DVD.
  • You’ll also need Qt 4.7 or later, available from: http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/
  • Open a terminal and navigate to the directory you extracted Heimdall to.
  • Enter the following commands to compile and install Heimdall Frontend:
  • Open Finder and navigate to the heimdall-frontend sub-directory. Open the newly created XCode project.
  • From the menu bar select Build -> Build. This outputs heimdall-frontend to /Applications

Windows

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Prebuilt package

Heimdall is available for download at http://glassechidna.com.au/heimdall/. However, to get the latest version, you must follow the instructions below to compile from source.

Compile with CMake

Download and install MSYS2 to set up a MinGW-W64 build environment. After installing, a terminal will launch. Issue the following commands:

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After compiling, open a command prompt/Explorer window and navigate to %msys64%home%username%Heimdallbuildbin (where “%msys64%” is the directory you installed MSYS2 to, C:msys64 by default). There should now be two executable files in that folder: heimdall.exe and heimdall-frontend.exe. You can run them from that directory or move them to a more suitable location. Navigate to %msys64%home%username%HeimdallWin32Drivers for the Zadig (driver) executable.

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