go-macho

Package macho implements access to and creation of Mach-O object files.

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Why 🤔

This package goes beyond the Go's debug/macho to:

• Cover ALL load commands and architectures
• Provide nice summary string output
• Allow for creating custom MachO files
• Parse Objective-C runtime information (non-fragile runtime ABI; legacy __OBJC metadata is detected and reported unsupported)
• Parse Swift runtime information
• Read/Write code signature information
• Parse fixup chain information

Install

$ go get github.com/blacktop/go-macho

Getting Started

package main

import "github.com/blacktop/go-macho"

func main() {
    m, err := macho.Open("/path/to/macho")
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    defer m.Close()

    fmt.Println(m.FileTOC.String())
}

Logging

This library uses Go's structured logging (log/slog) for diagnostic messages. By default, no logs are emitted. To see library diagnostics (warnings about malformed Mach-O data, etc.), set up an slog handler in your application:

import (
	"log/slog"
	"os"
)

// Enable debug logging
slog.SetDefault(slog.New(slog.NewTextHandler(os.Stderr, &slog.HandlerOptions{
	Level: slog.LevelWarn, // Or slog.LevelDebug for more verbose output
})))

This allows you to control go-macho's logging output in your application without it polluting stdout by default.

License

MIT Copyright (c) 2020-2026 blacktop