Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Building XNU for macOS Catalina 10.15.x

 The macOS Catalina 10.15 kernel (XNU) source has been released here: source tarball.

It has been a while since I've updated this blog, so this post will cover building XNU for all current Catalina releases 10.15 - 10.15.6. Let's start with the standard disclaimer:
Building XNU requires some patience, and some open source dependencies which are not pre-installed. This post walks through all the steps necessary to build the open source version of XNU on supported Apple hardware.


Building XNU for macOS 11.2 (Intel + Apple Silicon)

 The macOS Big Sur 11.2 kernel (XNU) source has been released here:  source ,  tarball . My previous post on building XNU for macOS 1...