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kage/pack/osdetect.go
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Duc-Tam Nguyen d81b90b38c Detect the base binary's OS when packing a cross-platform viewer
Packing with --base pointed at a kage built for another OS used to guess the
target from the file name: a base ending in .exe meant Windows, anything else
meant the host. That misfired in both directions. A Windows base without the
.exe suffix produced a viewer with no extension that will not run on Windows,
and an --out name that dropped .exe made the run hint print a macOS quarantine
note for a Windows file.

Sniff the base's executable header (ELF, PE, Mach-O) instead, so the target OS
comes from the bytes rather than the name. A Windows viewer now always gets a
.exe suffix, and the run hint names the real target and only mentions Gatekeeper
for actual macOS viewers.
2026-06-15 00:15:16 +07:00

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package pack
import "os"
// Executable-format magic numbers, enough to tell the three desktop targets
// apart by their first bytes. We only need the family (windows, darwin, linux),
// not the architecture, so the smallest distinguishing prefix is plenty.
var (
magicELF = []byte{0x7f, 'E', 'L', 'F'} // Linux, FreeBSD, and other ELF systems
magicPE = []byte{'M', 'Z'} // Windows PE/COFF (DOS stub header)
machOLE64 = []byte{0xcf, 0xfa, 0xed, 0xfe} // Mach-O 64-bit, little-endian (amd64, arm64)
machOLE32 = []byte{0xce, 0xfa, 0xed, 0xfe} // Mach-O 32-bit, little-endian
machOBE64 = []byte{0xfe, 0xed, 0xfa, 0xcf} // Mach-O 64-bit, big-endian
machOBE32 = []byte{0xfe, 0xed, 0xfa, 0xce} // Mach-O 32-bit, big-endian
machOFat = []byte{0xca, 0xfe, 0xba, 0xbe} // Mach-O universal (fat) binary
)
// SniffOS reads the first bytes of an executable and returns the GOOS family it
// was built for: "windows", "darwin", "linux", or "" when the bytes match none
// of them. It is how pack decides whether a cross-built viewer needs a .exe
// suffix and which run hint to print, without trusting the base's file name.
func SniffOS(path string) string {
f, err := os.Open(path)
if err != nil {
return ""
}
defer func() { _ = f.Close() }()
head := make([]byte, 4)
if _, err := f.ReadAt(head, 0); err != nil {
return ""
}
switch {
case hasPrefix(head, magicPE):
return "windows"
case hasPrefix(head, magicELF):
return "linux"
case hasPrefix(head, machOLE64), hasPrefix(head, machOLE32),
hasPrefix(head, machOBE64), hasPrefix(head, machOBE32),
hasPrefix(head, machOFat):
return "darwin"
default:
return ""
}
}
func hasPrefix(b, prefix []byte) bool {
if len(b) < len(prefix) {
return false
}
for i := range prefix {
if b[i] != prefix[i] {
return false
}
}
return true
}