GEF+GDB version

gef➤  version
GEF: (Standalone)
Blob Hash(/Users/***/.gdbinit-gef.py): 1a409c397646df9c0b8549d576cd7c7f8ec1ef47
SHA256(/Users/***/.gdbinit-gef.py): f096ff3bf50df08dbbc698a919360014f86f1eea315011cdabebd72a30a5bce8
GDB: 13.2
GDB-Python: 3.11

Operating System

MacOS (Intel)

Describe the issue you encountered

By following the installation manual, mac users may encounter missing file errors:

...
 File "/Users/***/.gdbinit-gef.py", line 1843, in which
    raise FileNotFoundError(f"Missing file `{program}`")
FileNotFoundError: Missing file `readelf` 

Also there is another report #911.

Do you read the docs and look at previously closed issues/PRs for similar cases?

Yes

Architecture impacted

• X86
• X64
• ARM
• ARM64
• MIPS
• MIPS64
• PPC
• PPC64
• RISCV

Describe your issue. Without a proper reproduction step-by-step, your issue will be ignored.

I checked the source and found a special handling adapting to mac:

So I suppose this author had made tests on mac and proven its workability.

file and readelf may be installed through homebrew:

$ brew install file binutils

And since binutils is "keg-only", one has to add its bin path into $PATH before starting gdb/gef:

$ export PATH="/usr/local/opt/binutils/bin:$PATH"
$ gdb

After that gef looks working good:

(remote) gef➤  version
GEF: (Standalone)
Blob Hash(/Users/***/.gdbinit-gef.py): 1a409c397646df9c0b8549d576cd7c7f8ec1ef47
SHA256(/Users/***/.gdbinit-gef.py): f096ff3bf50df08dbbc698a919360014f86f1eea315011cdabebd72a30a5bce8
GDB: 13.2
GDB-Python: 3.11
(remote) gef➤  gef-remote
[!] You already are in remote session. Close it first before opening a new one...

The document should add some content about setting up gef on macos.

Minimalist test case

No response

Additional context?

No response