Unofficial Patches for 4.38.23429

[fogice]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Oh and for the Mac version, I'll need to know what;s the earliest MacOS it works with.

I can't revert my OS install to test earlier Mac versions.

[PeterT]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Oh and for the Mac version, I'll need to know what;s the earliest MacOS it works with.

This should be the same as pgaskin's version. The only change made is replacing a value of 32 by 128 in two places.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by PeterT

Could you try this updated kobopatch file under linux please?

I need a 32-bit and 64-bit Linux version. Please make both and replace this attachment and I'll put it in the ZIP file for the patches.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by kakoo

I compiled it for Mac from pgaskin’s latest repository and tested it. It mostly works, though a few patches don’t seem to apply. The patch I wanted to use works fine, though.
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Thanks. I've added it to the ZIP. I'm just waiting for the Linux version to be replace with specific 32- and 64-bit version to replace those and then I'll replace the ZIP and update the first post.

[PeterT]

Sorry but I just can't generate a 32bit version. My basic understanding was that I could just override GOs target architecture by setting GOARCH to 386 and then using go build to compile. No matter what I try it persists in creating a 64 bit version. Likewise overriding the target OS by setting GOOS to windows still creates a Linux executable.

Of course if I try a simple Hello World program, all the switches work

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by PeterT

Sorry but I just can't generate a 32bit version. My basic understanding was that I could just override GOs target architecture by setting GOARCH to 386 and then using go build to compile. No matter what I try it persists in creating a 64 bit version. Likewise overriding the target OS by setting GOOS to windows still creates a Linux executable.

Of course if I try a simple Hello World program, all the switches work

Can someone else here create a 32-bit version? I don't know if we need it or not. But I'd rather not take the risk.

[xor_]

Getting the same results as PeterT. I can compile the Linux amd64 version, but trying for 386 I get undefined symbols.

I doubt that there's a huge demand for a 32bit Linux version.

[JSWolf]

Is the consensus that the 32-bit Linux version should be removed from the ZIP file?

[PeterT]

Originally Posted by xor_

Getting the same results as PeterT. I can compile the Linux amd64 version, but trying for 386 I get undefined symbols.



I doubt that there's a huge demand for a 32bit Linux version.

With me it's worse than that. Setting the GOARCH and GOOS variables before launching Go still results in an amd64 bit ELF format file being produced

[tentakel]

Quck quesion:
If the patch script finishes with

Checking patched KoboRoot.tgz for consistency

Successfully saved patched KoboRoot.tgz to out/KoboRoot.tgz. Remember to make sure your kobo is running the target firmware version before patching.

does that mean that the koboroot file is generally safe to install on the device?

[PeterT]

Yes..

[JSWolf]

Given that the poll I create has nobody voting that they use 32-bit Linux and patch Kobo firmware, I'll just drop the 32-bit Linux program. I'll sort out the ZIP file later today.

[geek1011]

New binaries are available: https://github.com/pgaskin/kobopatch...es/tag/v0.16.0.

[JSWolf]

The ZIP file in the first post of this thread has been updated with all of the included patchers thanks to @geek1011.

[anndee76]

Something is not quite right for these patches for macOS 26.0.1.

The only executable in the bin folder is the windows .exe file, all the others appear to be simple text files. I am thinking that this may be part of the issue that causes Terminal to throw a permission denied error.

However, I got the same results with the macOS executable posted earlier in this thread, so I think it may be another issue that is stopping the process from running.

I have tested an earlier version of the patches (4.37.21533) and have no problem regenerating them so it is something specific to this version for 4.38.23429.

Does anyone have any ideas for making this work for macOS 26?