macos binary fails

[yshavit]

MacOS blocks binaries from untrusted sources, so you can't just download the binary, chmod +x it, and go.

A workaround is to base64 encode the binary, and then decode it back and chmod that. It looks like in that process, you lose the flag that tells MacOS that this came from an external library.

One option could therefore to write a simple "installer" that takes the base64 of the binary and decodes it. You could do this in the form of a bash script that:

1. contains some bash code, then a delimiter line like # BASE64 FOLLOWS
2. the bash code cats itself, uses awk to only print out the lines after that delimiter, base64 -d on that, and then chmod +x