libimobiledevice-macosx

Binary distribution of the libimobiledevice library for Mac OS X http://www.libimobiledevice.org/

This library allows you to communicate with an iPad or iPhone using command-line tools. Jailbreak is NOT required.

NOTE: This is not an official release. I had a lot of trouble compiling this library for Mac OS X 10.7.4, but found this guy had http://blog.boceto.fr/2012/05/05/libimobiledevice-for-macosx/. This is just a tidied-up version of his release. Entirely unofficial. Fink does manage this package for Mac, but a 10.7 release is not available.

Thank you to eAi (https://github.com/eAi/bits-and-pieces) for patching the binaries so that idevicescreenshot now works on iOS 6.

Installation guide

Use git to download:

• git clone GIT-URL /your/path/here

OR go to Downloads / Download as Zip on github to use your browser to download. Then extract to /your/path/here.

Set up paths required in Terminal.app

• nano ~/.bash_profile

Add line at the end that reads:

export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/your/path/here/imobiledevice-macosx/:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH

Add line that reads:

PATH=${PATH}:/your/path/here/imobiledevice-macosx/

Return to the terminal and type

• source ~/.bash_profile

Examples

Connect an iPhone/iPad

View device log in realtime. Very handy for debugging Phonegap apps - shows WebView output and native messages

• idevicesyslog

Take screenshot. Puts a TIFF file in the current directory.

• idevicescreenshot

Install an IPA onto your device

• ideviceinstaller -i myapp.ipa

Note: Your IPA will need to have a valid code signature and mobileprovision file for the install to succed. This system is NOT a way around iOSs security!