ldid mit Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• ldid
• ldid2

Projektgeschichte

ldid emerged from iPhone OS and macOS code-signing work that needed a lightweight way to add, refresh, or inspect Mach-O signature metadata outside Apple's full signing workflow. Upstream remains a compact utility hosted in saurik's source repository rather than a broad signing framework.

Adoptionsgeschichte

ldid became familiar in jailbreak and unsigned iOS development toolchains because it can apply ad-hoc signatures and entitlements. The supplied package metadata records availability through Homebrew, MacPorts, and Nix, extending the tool beyond the Cydia packaging environment.

Wie es verwendet wird

The official Cydia page documents three core operations: use -S to sign a binary from scratch and allocate entitlements, -s to update hashes on an existing binary, and -e to dump entitlements.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package maintainers, ldid is a small tool with outsized importance at the boundary of Mach-O packaging, platform signing policy, and iOS development workflows.

Zeitleiste

• 2000s: ldid enters the Cydia/saurik tool ecosystem for Mach-O signature manipulation.
• 2020s: Homebrew, MacPorts, and Nix package ldid for developer workstations.

Related projects

• Related tools and ecosystems include Apple's codesign utility, Cydia packaging, Theos-style iOS development workflows, and general Mach-O binary tooling.

Quellen

• https://cydia.saurik.com/info/ldid/
• https://git.saurik.com/ldid.git
• source_facts.package-manager