This has been living in a
corner of the Wiki/a couple of posts lost in the middle of a sea of threads for a while, so I thought it was time to finally give it a proper home
.
PSA: All downloads have been moved to the
Snapshots thread!
For those unfamiliar with it, it's the CLI tool we use to package our hacks in a somewhat user-friendly Kindle update file (.bin), and unpack and poke into official updates
.
It's the successor of the trusty
kindle_update_tool.py Python packager we used in the K1/2/3 days, and a fork of yifanlu's original
KindleTool project (historically forked to fix the Linux support, and ultimately permit a native win32 port). So, as always, thanks to all those people
.
It's living right
here on GitHub.
I won't be rehashing the
readme, but I'm available to answer any queries you might have
.
If you don't want to/can't
build it yourself, you'll always find a set of binaries here for every system supported:
* Linux x86 (32bit):
-linux-i686: Recommended binary.
* Linux x86_64 (64bit):
-linux-x86_64: Recommended binary.
* Windows:
-mingw: Recommended binary (native Win32, 32bit).
-cygwin: Unavailable since v1.6.5. Should you *really* need to use KindleTool in that environment, build it yourself.
* OS X:
-osx: Built on 10.13, might run on something older (provided it's at least 10.6). Standalone. (Mac Intel only, 64bit).