Hacking Hexkyz: "Anatomy of a Wii U: hexFW"

[DeadlyFoez]

Startpatch, banana patcher, preloader, Priiloader etc... I miss those days.. Where is giant Pune? Comex? Crediar? Wii power? Davebaol? Wanky?

Haha!

Giantpune has a real life, family, and great job. We will likely never see him in any console scene again.

 

[Billy Acuña]

Just to notice that hexFW is in a usable state, but you need to build it yourself. As a note loadiine.ovh supports hexFW's browserhax based launching.
Source: https://github.com/hexkyz/hexFW

 

[Irastris]

Just to notice that hexFW is in a usable state, but you need to build it yourself. As a note loadiine.ovh supports hexFW's browserhax based launching.
Source: https://github.com/hexkyz/hexFW

Did you do anything special when building? For me it always fails on this exact part:

make[1]: Entering directory `/c/Users/*****/Downloads/hexFW-master/launcher/browserhax'
powerpc-eabi-gcc -x assembler-with-cpp -nostartfiles -nostdlib  -o wiiuhaxx_loader.elf wiiuhaxx_loader.s
powerpc-eabi-gcc.exe: error: CreateProcess: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/Users/*****/Downloads/hexFW-master/launcher/browserhax'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I don't think it's anything wrong with my dev environment because I'm able to build every other bit of homebrew that's come out recently just fine.

 

[Mustacheboyo]

so what does HexFW do?

 

[xtheman]

so what does HexFW do?

It is a cfw. That you should mess with

 

[Mustacheboyo]

ok

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so i just read the github readme so i guess it's meant to be customizable

 

[Irastris]

Can someone give me some tips on compiling hexFW? It fails on this part for me:

I'm assuming that means it couldn't find wiiuhaxx_loader.s, even though that file is definitely in the folder.
It's really annoying too, since I can compile every other iosuhax-based source code fine.

 

[cory1492]

Irastris that is a problem with your toolchain
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3848357/createprocess-no-such-file-or-directory

 

[Irastris]

Irastris that is a problem with your toolchain
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3848357/createprocess-no-such-file-or-directory

I actually stumbled across that same page earlier, but none of the answers solved my issue.

 

[cory1492]

Keep in mind, you do have to reboot or at least re-logon if you change environment variables, confirm your changes took via 'echo %PATH%' on command line - but yes its basically looking for your posix base like that thread mentions. I was able to build it just fine right now using msys2 as the posix base added to the windows PATH, in my case I installed msys2 to h:\msys64 so its

h:\msys64\mingw32\bin;h:\msys64\usr\bin;

and only DEVKITPRO/DEVKITARM environment variable to compile this with 'make' directly from windows cmd.exe.

I did have to make one adjustment in: hexFW\launcher\browserhax\makefile I added a first line of:

PATH     :=   $(DEVKITPPC)/bin:$(PATH)

and initially I had the wrong fw.img in hexFW\firmware\img, apparently it wanted the one the other scripts rename to fw.img.full.bin. Other than that it was all pretty straight forward, though there were a couple warnings I found odd.

Dunno what else to say, I've had your problem before and fixing the PATH to include posix has fixed it.

 

[Irastris]

I was able to build it just fine right now using msys2 as the posix base

Okay so, very odd, I've been using Cygwin, so I tried installing msys2 and used it instead, and right away it got past that error perfectly fine.

Unfortunately, now it's failing on anpack.py. Ugg. (Yes, I did add the keys to the python file.)

Edit: Nevermind, fixed the error by replacing the anpack.py in hexFW with the anpack.py in dimok's iosuhax. Hopefully that doesn't break some stuff.

 

[cory1492]

Edit: Nevermind, fixed the error by replacing the anpack.py in hexFW with the anpack.py in dimok's iosuhax. Hopefully that doesn't break some stuff.

Yeah I had the same fail with anpack, I just gave it the other fw.img.full.bin instead of fw.img and it was happy. Didn't add any keys though so maybe that was the issue no idea if the resulting image it built is usable

 

[kevandkkim]

Has anyone successfully built this yet? I am working on compilation errors and am completely new to Python but i believe this has something to do with either the keys or the fw.img i used.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "scripts/anpack.py", line 255, in <module>
    fw = ancast(open(input_fn, "r+b"))
  File "scripts/anpack.py", line 148, in __init__
    self.decrypt(file, 0x200)
  File "scripts/anpack.py", line 197, in decrypt
    key = ancast_key.decode('hex')
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'
make: *** [patches/sections/0x08120000.bin] Error 1

Thanks and will update when i find a solution.

 

[dojafoja]

Has anyone successfully built this yet? I am working on compilation errors and am completely new to Python but i believe this has something to do with either the keys or the fw.img i used.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "scripts/anpack.py", line 255, in <module>
    fw = ancast(open(input_fn, "r+b"))
  File "scripts/anpack.py", line 148, in __init__
    self.decrypt(file, 0x200)
  File "scripts/anpack.py", line 197, in decrypt
    key = ancast_key.decode('hex')
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'
make: *** [patches/sections/0x08120000.bin] Error 1

Thanks and will update when i find a solution.

An str in Python3 has NO decode method. This script was obviously written for Python 2.7. Either remove the decode() method and deal with any problems that arise from that OR run it with Python 2.7

 

[Conn0r]

Dead link?? ;( rip the dream

 

[Deleted User]

Blog not found

Oh well, this is just something else for people to get hyped and than mad over.

 

[tvall]

source is still up on github. https://github.com/hexkyz/hexFW
no need to lose hope quite yet. but ti be safe clone it while you can.

 

[ScienceBETCH]

IM BACK AFTER A LONG TIME
but gonna be gone again lel
Btw if the blog is down he either gave up or he is doing his shit privately (or blogspot just went nuts)

 

[kevandkkim]

Figured out make with the help of some one. Installed the Hexfw. Didnt notice any difference yet cant wait to see what becomes of this.

 

[Optiroc]

Hexkyz has been thoroughly documenting boot0 lately.