How to get the build UUID in runtime and the image base address

Question

Is there away to get the build UUID, the one that you can check in the dSYM generated file and the image base address in iOS.

Not so good when it comes to low level stuff, anyone can enlighten?

Answer 1

Here is a solution similar to Kerni's answer but which works for any platform (iOS device + simulator and OS X) and any architecture (32-bit + 64-bit). It also returns a NSUUID instead of a NSString.

#import <mach-o/dyld.h>
#import <mach-o/loader.h>

static NSUUID *ExecutableUUID(void)
{
    const struct mach_header *executableHeader = NULL;
    for (uint32_t i = 0; i < _dyld_image_count(); i++)
    {
        const struct mach_header *header = _dyld_get_image_header(i);
        if (header->filetype == MH_EXECUTE)
        {
            executableHeader = header;
            break;
        }
    }

    if (!executableHeader)
        return nil;

    BOOL is64bit = executableHeader->magic == MH_MAGIC_64 || executableHeader->magic == MH_CIGAM_64;
    uintptr_t cursor = (uintptr_t)executableHeader + (is64bit ? sizeof(struct mach_header_64) : sizeof(struct mach_header));
    const struct segment_command *segmentCommand = NULL;
    for (uint32_t i = 0; i < executableHeader->ncmds; i++, cursor += segmentCommand->cmdsize)
    {
        segmentCommand = (struct segment_command *)cursor;
        if (segmentCommand->cmd == LC_UUID)
        {
            const struct uuid_command *uuidCommand = (const struct uuid_command *)segmentCommand;
            return [[NSUUID alloc] initWithUUIDBytes:uuidCommand->uuid];
        }
    }

    return nil;
}