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Some pirated software and cracking patches rely on gdb. So a user has to have xcode installed in order for the cracks to work. At least, it's often a requiremen

by arnorhs 16y ago

Some pirated software and cracking patches rely on gdb. So a user has to have xcode installed in order for the cracks to work. At least, it's often a requirement. This might be to make that harder and to thwart software piracy up to a point.

kalleboo 16y ago
But what's keeping them from pirating Xcode?
- goalieca 16y ago
  And GBD/clang/gcc are all open source technologies.
- uxp 16y ago
  Probably the requirement of trying pirate a 50MB app is a 4.2GB crack.
lawnchair_larry 16y ago
Cracked software is pre-patched. Otherwise, they just distribute keys, and use the software unmodified. Xcode and gdb aren't a factor in piracy.
- arnorhs 16y ago
  Well, I'll just paste instructions from a crack a friend of mine needed me to help him with: Install Instructions for Protools 9 • 0. Make sure you have gdb installed. Test by typing “gdb test” into terminal. 1. Uninstall any versions of Pro Tools that are already installed 2. Install Pro Tools, Complete Production Tookit 2 and HEAT (in the optional installers folder) from the full iso 3. Use the [K]‘ed installer to overwrite the necessary files 4. Launch Pro Tools from the loader and everything should work as expected This crack requires Xcode to be installed. Xcode can be downloaded for free from developer.apple.com. Also, DO NOT REPLACE THE LOADER. The loader included with the new release (loader version 1.1) was designed for this release as a background process which is what people wanted. It also now breaks on ptrace so there is no need for the anti-ptrace extension posted later in the topic. To use Pro Tools launch the loader and wait a few seconds. Nothing will show while it does some work in the background and then it will launch the main Pro Tools app a few seconds later. Big thanks to unsanity, simblism, and XVX for their respective contributions.
josso 16y ago
Cracking software often (not always) require GDB, but running cracked software doesn't require anything but the .app

by arnorhs 16y ago

kalleboo 16y ago

But what's keeping them from pirating Xcode?

goalieca 16y ago
And GBD/clang/gcc are all open source technologies.
uxp 16y ago
Probably the requirement of trying pirate a 50MB app is a 4.2GB crack.

lawnchair_larry 16y ago

Cracked software is pre-patched. Otherwise, they just distribute keys, and use the software unmodified. Xcode and gdb aren't a factor in piracy.

arnorhs 16y ago
Well, I'll just paste instructions from a crack a friend of mine needed me to help him with: Install Instructions for Protools 9 • 0. Make sure you have gdb installed. Test by typing “gdb test” into terminal. 1. Uninstall any versions of Pro Tools that are already installed 2. Install Pro Tools, Complete Production Tookit 2 and HEAT (in the optional installers folder) from the full iso 3. Use the [K]‘ed installer to overwrite the necessary files 4. Launch Pro Tools from the loader and everything should work as expected This crack requires Xcode to be installed. Xcode can be downloaded for free from developer.apple.com. Also, DO NOT REPLACE THE LOADER. The loader included with the new release (loader version 1.1) was designed for this release as a background process which is what people wanted. It also now breaks on ptrace so there is no need for the anti-ptrace extension posted later in the topic. To use Pro Tools launch the loader and wait a few seconds. Nothing will show while it does some work in the background and then it will launch the main Pro Tools app a few seconds later. Big thanks to unsanity, simblism, and XVX for their respective contributions.

josso 16y ago

Cracking software often (not always) require GDB, but running cracked software doesn't require anything but the .app