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Installing Ghidra as a self-contained OSX .app (without contaminating your system with having to install Java):

Prebuilt (9.0.2)

Download

Build your own

  1. Download and extract the launcher AppleScript template app below. Optionally modify Ghidra.app/Info.plist to your liking.
  2. Download the latest OpenJDK and extract it to Ghidra.app/jdk. Make sure Ghidra.app/jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java exists.
  3. Download the latest Ghidra and extract it to Ghidra.app/ghidra. Make sure Ghidra.app/ghidra/ghidraRun exists.
  4. Copy Ghidra.app to your Applications directory.

Note that the template .app is just a standard AppleScript generated .app. If you don't trust the binary, you can build your own with the provided AppleScript.

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ghost commented May 13, 2019

Holy cow. That's awesome, thanks a lot!

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Any plans to contribute it back to the main Ghidra repo?

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yifanlu commented May 13, 2019

There’s no code here. Just binaries; not sure how it can be contributed.

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Can't you contribute the source code of the AppleScript?

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yifanlu commented May 13, 2019

Okay here you go. Contribute it.

set UnixPath to POSIX path of (path to me as text)
set JdkPath to UnixPath & "/jdk/Contents/Home/bin"
set GhidraRun to UnixPath & "/ghidra/ghidraRun"
do shell script "export PATH=" & (quoted form of JdkPath) & ":$PATH; " & (quoted form of GhidraRun)

@Tower450
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thanks you @yifanlu you are amazing

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Akathian commented Dec 6, 2020

Great tool

@matanbroner
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This is great, thank you so much

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dikim33 commented Sep 9, 2022

This still works great on Monterey. Thank you!

@EasyVector
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Works like a charm! Thank you!

@redthing1
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Just want to add that this works great on macOS Sonoma wit the latest Ghidra 11.x
At some point I would like to make a script that does all the packaging from a Ghidra release zip.

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