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How-To compile libimobiledevice

October 14th, 2022

This is a quick post about how to compile libimobiledevice for use in a dev environment. The difference here being that the resultant builds are not installed to /usr/ or /usr/local directories, but are instead contained within their original repository paths.

Compile libplist

$ git clone [email protected]:libimobiledevice/libplist.git
$ cd libplist
$ mkdir build
$ autoreconf --install
$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=`pwd`/build
$ make
$ make install
$ # Save the built directory path so the dependencies can use it
$ export LIBPLIST_PATH=`pwd`/build/

Compile libimobiledevice-glue

$ git clone [email protected]:libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice-glue.git
$ cd libimobiledevice-glue
$ mkdir build
$ autoreconf --install
$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$LIBPLIST_PATH/lib/pkgconfig ./configure --prefix=`pwd`/build
$ make
$ make install
$ # Save the built directory path so the dependencies can use it
$ export GLUE_PATH=`pwd`/build/

Compile libusbmuxd

$ git clone [email protected]:libimobiledevice/libusbmuxd.git
$ cd libusbmuxd
$ mkdir build
$ autoreconf --install
$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$LIBPLIST_PATH/lib/pkgconfig:$GLUE_PATH/lib/pkgconfig" ./configure --prefix=`pwd`/build
$ make
$ make install
$ # Save the built directory path so the dependencies can use it
$ export LIBUSBMUXD_PATH=`pwd`/build

Compile libimobiledevice

$ git clone [email protected]:libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice.git
$ cd libimobildevice
$ mkdir build
$ autoreconf --install
$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$LIBPLIST_PATH/lib/pkgconfig:$GLUE_PATH/lib/pkgconfig:$LIBUSBMUXD_PATH/lib/pkgconfig" ./configure --prefix=`pwd`/build
$ make
$ make install
$ # Save the built directory path so the dependencies can use it
$ export LIBIMOBILEDEVICE_PATH=`pwd`/build

Add the --enable-debug flag to ./configure to enable debug output.

[OPTIONAL] Compile usbmuxd

$ git clone [email protected]:libimobiledevice/usbmuxd.git
$ cd usbmuxd
$ mkdir build
$ autoreconf --install
$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$LIBPLIST_PATH/lib/pkgconfig:$GLUE_PATH/lib/pkgconfig:$LIBUSBMUXD_PATH/lib/pkgconfig:$LIBIMOBILEDEVICE_PATH/lib/pkgconfig" ./autogen.sh --prefix=`pwd`/build
$ make
$ make install
$ # Save the built directory path so the dependencies can use it
$ export USBMUXD_PATH=`pwd`/build

[OPTIONAL] Compile ideviceinstaller

$ git clone [email protected]:libimobiledevice/ideviceinstaller.git
$ cd ideviceinstaller
$ mkdir build
$ autoreconf --install
$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$LIBPLIST_PATH/lib/pkgconfig:$LIBUSBMUXD_PATH/lib/pkgconfig:$LIBIMOBILEDEVICE_PATH/lib/pkgconfig" ./autogen.sh --prefix=`pwd`/build
$ make
$ make install