[Tutorial] Fix for Latest MacOS Versions

[maxtyson123]

In the later versions of MacOS macfuse is used instead of osxfuse. Here is a hack to get it working:

Install macfuse
brew install macfuse

Update the code (see attached patch)

cd fuse-ext2
git apply Working_with_latest_macfuse.patch
cd ../

Working_with_latest_macfuse.patch

[Truthuleave]

Could you write ext4 disks from MacOS?

[BH2WFR]

I still met failure:
I installed latest macfuse by manually install .pkg package.

ld: framework 'MFMount' not found
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make[1]: *** [fuse-ext2] Error 1
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

[maxtyson123]

Yea just having that issue myself, must be something with newer macOS no longer using Framework, I will let you know what I find

[maxtyson123]

Right so It seems it needs MFMount which is a dynamic library used in older versions of MacOS that must no longer be shipped anymore.

I tried stripping all the references but somewhere it still wants to use it:

grep -rl -- '-framework MFMount' . | xargs sed -i '' 's/-framework MFMount//g'
grep -rl -- '-arch x86_64' . | xargs sed -i '' 's/-arch x86_64//g'

To get around this you can make a script that removes that parameter (this is a hack not a solution) from gcc.

#!/bin/bash
args=()
while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
    if [[ "$1" == "-framework" && "$2" == "MFMount" ]]; then
        shift 2
    else
        args+=("$1")
        shift
    fi
done
exec /usr/bin/gcc "-arch" "arm64" "-isysroot" "$(xcrun --show-sdk-path)" "${args[@]}"

Then add this script to your PATH at the start and it should install fine

I don't think this not using real frame work will cause any issue because the FUSE layer should be doing all the low-level work.