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libimobiledevice-glue

brew install libimobiledevice-glue v1.3.2 LGPL-2.1-or-later

Shared C library providing common system API utilities for libimobiledevice iOS device communication.

Why you might care

This is a build/runtime dependency for libimobiledevice and related tools that communicate with iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, Apple TV) natively on Linux and other non-Apple platforms. You need it if you're building software that interacts with iOS hardware or installing libimobiledevice itself.

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