Ghidra.app launcher for OSX

Ghidra-OSX-Launcher-Script.scpt

Ghidra-OSX-Launcher-Template.tgz

Ghidra-OSX-Launcher.md

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.

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

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

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

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

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)

thanks you @yifanlu you are amazing

Great tool

This is great, thank you so much

This still works great on Monterey. Thank you!

Works like a charm! Thank you!

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.