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neurobin
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macOS requires `-r` for binaries to work across reboots
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Running shc -f a.sh creates a.sh.x, which works fine until macOS is rebooted. After that it'll print something like:
The error message: "
uE?A@1??G??oAg!X??^I'
?_??8?has expired!
Please contact your provider [email protected]
Retrying this with shc -f a.sh -e 01/01/3000 will lead to a different failure, with different garbage text and the word expired in the mix.
Regardless of if -e is used or not, the binary will fail.
To alleviate this, I've found binaries must be created using the -r flag. That is shc -rf a.sh creates a binary that will work after macOS restarts.
Env: macOS 15.5 using 4.0.3 installed via brew.
Related: https://github.com/neurobin/shc/issues/12
Why I tried -r:
https://github.com/neurobin/shc/issues/89#issuecomment-508679468
https://github.com/neurobin/shc/issues/89#issuecomment-508724271
