MacOS Installation¶

Warning

MacOS support is currently in Beta release. There’s no support for M1 chips

Install CHIPSEC Dependencies¶

Note

CHIPSEC has deprecated support for Python2 since June 2020

Install XCODE from the App Store (for best results use version 11 or newer)

Install PIP and setuptools packages. Please see instructions here

Turn the System Integrity Protection (SIP) off. See Configuring SIP

An alternative to disabling SIP and allowing untrusted/unsigned kexts to load can be enabled by running the following command:

# csrutil enable --without kext

Clone CHIPSEC Git repository:

# git clone https://github.com/chipsec/chipsec

Follow steps in section “Using as a Python package” of Running CHIPSEC

To build chipsec.kext on your own and load please follow the instructions in drivers/osx/README

When done using CHIPSEC, ensure the driver is unloaded and re-enable the System Integrity Protection:

# kextunload -b com.google.chipsec

# csrutil enable

xcodebuild requires xcode error during CHIPSEC install:

# sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer