diff --git a/.changeset/eleven-ghosts-bow.md b/.changeset/eleven-ghosts-bow.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a95734a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/eleven-ghosts-bow.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"linux-tools-mac": major
+---
+
+feat: upgrade linux-tools-mac to latest toolsets of gnu-tar, lzip, makedepend, glib, libgsf, libtool, pcre, gettext, binutils
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-linux-tools-mac.yaml b/.github/workflows/build-linux-tools-mac.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4fcfbd63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-linux-tools-mac.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+name: Build macOS linux-tools-mac bundle
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  workflow_call:
+
+jobs:
+  mac:
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.runner }}
+    timeout-minutes: 30
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        runner: [macos-26-intel, macos-26]
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683
+
+      - name: Build
+        run: |
+          bash ./packages/linux-tools-mac/build.sh
+
+      - name: Upload linux-tools-mac artifact
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@4cec3d8aa04e39d1a68397de0c4cd6fb9dce8ec1
+        with:
+          name: linux-tools-mac-${{ matrix.runner }}
+          path: ./packages/linux-tools-mac/out/**/*.tar.gz
+          if-no-files-found: error
+          retention-days: 1
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yaml b/.github/workflows/build.yaml
index cc529b9b..1faa3392 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yaml
@@ -74,7 +74,12 @@ jobs:
     if: contains(needs.detect.outputs.matrix, '"dmg-builder"')
     uses: ./.github/workflows/build-dmg-builder.yaml
     needs: detect
-    
+
+  linux-tools-mac:
+    if: contains(needs.detect.outputs.matrix, '"linux-tools-mac"')
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/build-linux-tools-mac.yaml
+    needs: detect
+
   squirrel:
     if: contains(needs.detect.outputs.matrix, '"squirrel.windows"')
     uses: ./.github/workflows/build-squirrel.yaml
@@ -89,6 +94,7 @@ jobs:
         ran,
         nsis,
         dmg-builder,
+        linux-tools-mac,
         squirrel
       ]
     if: |
diff --git a/packages/linux-tools-mac/assets/build-mac.sh b/packages/linux-tools-mac/assets/build-mac.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..51d78b62
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/linux-tools-mac/assets/build-mac.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,323 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -euo pipefail
+
+if [[ "$(uname -s)" != "Darwin" ]]; then
+    echo "❌ Must be run on macOS"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+XCODE_VER="$(xcodebuild -version 2>/dev/null | awk '/^Xcode /{print $2}')"
+XCODE_MAJOR="${XCODE_VER%%.*}"
+if [[ -z "$XCODE_MAJOR" || "$XCODE_MAJOR" -lt 26 ]]; then
+    echo "❌ Xcode 26+ required (found: ${XCODE_VER:-none})"
+    echo "   install_name_tool in Xcode < 26 rejects Homebrew ld_prime binaries."
+    echo "   Use a macos-26 runner."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+### ================================
+### ARGS
+### ================================
+ARCH=""
+OUTPUT_DIR=""
+ROOT=""
+
+while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
+    case "$1" in
+        --arch)       ARCH="$2";       shift 2 ;;
+        --output-dir) OUTPUT_DIR="$2"; shift 2 ;;
+        --root)       ROOT="$2";       shift 2 ;;
+        *) echo "Unknown argument: $1"; exit 1 ;;
+    esac
+done
+
+ROOT="${ROOT:-$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)}"
+OUTPUT_DIR="${OUTPUT_DIR:-${ROOT}/out/linux-tools-mac}"
+ARCH="${ARCH:-$(uname -m)}"
+
+if [[ "$ARCH" != "arm64" && "$ARCH" != "x86_64" ]]; then
+    echo "❌ Unsupported ARCH: $ARCH"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+### ================================
+### CONFIG
+### ================================
+TMP_DIR="/tmp/linux-tools-mac-build-${ARCH}"
+BUNDLE_DIR="${TMP_DIR}/linux-tools-mac"
+BIN_DIR="${BUNDLE_DIR}/bin"
+LIB_DIR="${BUNDLE_DIR}/lib"
+
+cleanup() { rm -rf "$TMP_DIR"; }
+trap cleanup EXIT INT TERM
+
+# Binaries to collect per formula — "formula:bin1 bin2 bin3" entries
+FORMULA_BINS=(
+    "gnu-tar:gtar"
+    "lzip:lzip"
+    "makedepend:makedepend"
+    "glib:gapplication gdbus gdbus-codegen gio gio-querymodules glib-compile-resources glib-compile-schemas glib-genmarshal glib-gettextize glib-mkenums gobject-query gresource gsettings gtester gtester-report"
+    "libgsf:gsf gsf-office-thumbnailer gsf-vba-dump"
+    "libtool:glibtool glibtoolize"
+    "pcre:pcre-config pcregrep pcretest"
+    "gettext:autopoint envsubst gettext gettext.sh gettextize msgattrib msgcat msgcmp msgcomm msgconv msgen msgexec msgfilter msgfmt msggrep msginit msgmerge msgunfmt msguniq ngettext recode-sr-latin xgettext"
+    "binutils:gar ar"
+)
+
+echo "🛠️  linux-tools-mac macOS bundle"
+echo "   Arch:   $ARCH"
+echo "   Xcode:  $XCODE_VER"
+echo "   Output: $OUTPUT_DIR"
+
+### ================================
+### CLEAN
+### ================================
+rm -rf "$TMP_DIR"
+mkdir -p "$BIN_DIR" "$LIB_DIR"
+
+### ================================
+### INSTALL DEPENDENCIES
+### ================================
+echo ""
+echo "📦 Installing brew formulas..."
+brew install gnu-tar lzip makedepend glib libgsf libtool pcre gettext binutils
+
+### ================================
+### COPY BINARIES
+### ================================
+echo ""
+echo "📋 Copying binaries..."
+
+for entry in "${FORMULA_BINS[@]}"; do
+    formula="${entry%%:*}"
+    bins="${entry#*:}"
+    prefix="$(brew --prefix "$formula" 2>/dev/null || true)"
+    if [[ -z "$prefix" ]]; then
+        echo "  ⚠️  Could not find prefix for $formula, skipping"
+        continue
+    fi
+    for bin in $bins; do
+        src="$prefix/bin/$bin"
+        if [[ -f "$src" || -L "$src" ]]; then
+            echo "  ➕ $formula/$bin"
+            cp -L "$src" "$BIN_DIR/$bin"
+            chmod u+w,a+x "$BIN_DIR/$bin"
+        else
+            echo "  ⏭️  $formula/$bin not found, skipping"
+        fi
+    done
+done
+
+### ================================
+### COPY LICENSE FILES
+### ================================
+echo ""
+echo "📄 Copying license files..."
+mkdir -p "$BUNDLE_DIR/LICENSES"
+
+for entry in "${FORMULA_BINS[@]}"; do
+    formula="${entry%%:*}"
+    license_prefix="$(brew --prefix "$formula" 2>/dev/null || true)"
+    if [[ -z "$license_prefix" ]]; then
+        echo "  ⚠️  Could not find prefix for $formula, skipping licenses"
+        continue
+    fi
+
+    license_dir="$BUNDLE_DIR/LICENSES/$formula"
+    mkdir -p "$license_dir"
+
+    found=0
+    for name in COPYING LICENSE LICENCE COPYING.LIB AUTHORS; do
+        src="$license_prefix/$name"
+        if [[ -f "$src" ]]; then
+            cp "$src" "$license_dir/$name"
+            echo "  📄 $formula/$name"
+            found=1
+        fi
+    done
+    if [[ "$found" -eq 0 ]]; then
+        echo "  ⚠️  No license file found for $formula in $license_prefix"
+    fi
+done
+
+### ================================
+### COLLECT DYLIB DEPENDENCIES
+### ================================
+echo ""
+echo "📚 Collecting dylib dependencies..."
+
+should_skip_lib() {
+    local dep="$1"
+    [[ "$dep" == /usr/lib/* ]] && return 0
+    [[ "$dep" == /System/* ]] && return 0
+    [[ "$dep" == @* ]] && return 0
+    return 1
+}
+
+is_macho() {
+    file -b "$1" 2>/dev/null | grep -q '^Mach-O'
+}
+
+collect_deps() {
+    local binary="$1"
+    is_macho "$binary" || return 0
+    otool -L "$binary" 2>/dev/null | awk 'NR>1 {print $1}' | while read -r dep; do
+        should_skip_lib "$dep" && continue
+        [[ ! -f "$dep" ]] && continue
+
+        local dep_name
+        dep_name="$(basename "$dep")"
+        local dest="$LIB_DIR/$dep_name"
+
+        if [[ ! -f "$dest" ]]; then
+            echo "    📥 $dep_name"
+            cp -L "$dep" "$dest"
+            chmod u+w "$dest"
+            # Recurse into this library's own deps
+            collect_deps "$dest"
+        fi
+    done
+}
+
+find "$BIN_DIR" -type f | while read -r bin; do
+    collect_deps "$bin"
+done
+
+# Also collect deps of libs (they may have deps we missed)
+find "$LIB_DIR" -name "*.dylib" -type f | while read -r lib; do
+    collect_deps "$lib"
+done
+
+### ================================
+### PATCH DYLIB REFERENCES
+### ================================
+echo ""
+echo "🔧 Patching dylib references..."
+
+patch_binary() {
+    local binary="$1"
+    local is_lib="${2:-false}"
+
+    is_macho "$binary" || return 0
+
+    # Set install name for dylibs
+    if [[ "$is_lib" == "true" ]]; then
+        local lib_name
+        lib_name="$(basename "$binary")"
+        install_name_tool -id "@loader_path/$lib_name" "$binary" 2>/dev/null || true
+    fi
+
+    # Patch all absolute non-system dep references
+    otool -L "$binary" 2>/dev/null | awk 'NR>1 {print $1}' | while read -r dep; do
+        should_skip_lib "$dep" && continue
+
+        local dep_name
+        dep_name="$(basename "$dep")"
+        local dest="$LIB_DIR/$dep_name"
+
+        if [[ -f "$dest" ]]; then
+            local new_path
+            if [[ "$is_lib" == "true" ]]; then
+                new_path="@loader_path/$dep_name"
+            else
+                new_path="@loader_path/../lib/$dep_name"
+            fi
+            local it_err
+            it_err="$(install_name_tool -change "$dep" "$new_path" "$binary" 2>&1)" \
+                || echo "    ⚠️  patch failed [$(basename "$binary")] $dep: $it_err"
+        fi
+    done
+}
+
+find "$BIN_DIR" -type f | while read -r bin; do
+    echo "  🔁 bin/$(basename "$bin")"
+    patch_binary "$bin" "false"
+done
+
+find "$LIB_DIR" -name "*.dylib" -type f | while read -r lib; do
+    echo "  🔁 lib/$(basename "$lib")"
+    patch_binary "$lib" "true"
+done
+
+### ================================
+### STRIP SYMBOLS
+### ================================
+echo ""
+echo "✂️  Stripping symbols..."
+find "$BUNDLE_DIR" -type f | while read -r f; do
+    strip -x "$f" 2>/dev/null || true
+done
+
+### ================================
+### AD-HOC CODESIGN
+### ================================
+echo ""
+echo "🔏 Code signing..."
+
+# Sign libs first (executables may load them)
+find "$LIB_DIR" -name "*.dylib" -type f | while read -r lib; do
+    codesign --force --sign - "$lib" 2>/dev/null || true
+done
+
+find "$BIN_DIR" -type f | while read -r bin; do
+    codesign --force --sign - "$bin" 2>/dev/null || true
+done
+
+### ================================
+### VERSION.txt
+### ================================
+echo ""
+echo "📝 Writing VERSION.txt..."
+{
+    echo "platform: darwin"
+    echo "arch: $ARCH"
+    echo "created_at: $(date -u +"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")"
+    echo ""
+    for formula in gnu-tar lzip makedepend glib libgsf libtool pcre gettext binutils; do
+        ver="$(brew info --json "$formula" 2>/dev/null | python3 -c "import sys,json; d=json.load(sys.stdin); print(d[0]['versions']['stable'])" 2>/dev/null || echo "unknown")"
+        echo "$formula: $ver"
+    done
+} > "$BUNDLE_DIR/VERSION.txt"
+
+### ================================
+### ARCHIVE
+### ================================
+echo ""
+echo "📦 Creating archive..."
+mkdir -p "$OUTPUT_DIR"
+
+ARCHIVE_ARCH="$ARCH"
+ARCHIVE_NAME="linux-tools-mac-darwin-${ARCHIVE_ARCH}.tar.gz"
+ARCHIVE_PATH="$OUTPUT_DIR/$ARCHIVE_NAME"
+
+tar -czf "$ARCHIVE_PATH" -C "$TMP_DIR" linux-tools-mac
+shasum -a 256 "$ARCHIVE_PATH" > "${ARCHIVE_PATH}.sha256"
+
+rm -rf "$TMP_DIR"
+
+### ================================
+### TEST
+### ================================
+echo ""
+echo "🧪 Running tests..."
+
+VERIFY_DIR="/tmp/linux-tools-mac-verify-$$"
+mkdir -p "$VERIFY_DIR"
+tar -xzf "$ARCHIVE_PATH" -C "$VERIFY_DIR"
+
+bash "$ROOT/assets/test.sh" --bundle-dir "$VERIFY_DIR/linux-tools-mac"
+
+rm -rf "$VERIFY_DIR"
+
+### ================================
+### DONE
+### ================================
+SIZE="$(du -sh "$ARCHIVE_PATH" | cut -f1)"
+echo ""
+echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
+echo "✅ DONE"
+echo "• Arch:    $ARCH"
+echo "• Archive: $ARCHIVE_NAME"
+echo "• Size:    $SIZE"
+echo "• Path:    $ARCHIVE_PATH"
+echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
diff --git a/packages/linux-tools-mac/assets/test.sh b/packages/linux-tools-mac/assets/test.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..b0944e68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/linux-tools-mac/assets/test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -euo pipefail
+
+### ================================
+### ARGS
+### ================================
+BUNDLE_DIR=""
+
+while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
+    case "$1" in
+        --bundle-dir) BUNDLE_DIR="$2"; shift 2 ;;
+        *) echo "Unknown argument: $1"; exit 1 ;;
+    esac
+done
+
+if [[ -z "$BUNDLE_DIR" ]]; then
+    echo "Usage: $0 --bundle-dir <path-to-extracted-bundle>"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+if [[ ! -d "$BUNDLE_DIR/bin" ]]; then
+    echo "❌ No bin/ directory found in $BUNDLE_DIR"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+BIN="$BUNDLE_DIR/bin"
+LIB="$BUNDLE_DIR/lib"
+
+# Use bundled dylibs, not system/Homebrew ones
+export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH="$LIB${DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+
+### ================================
+### HELPERS
+### ================================
+pass=0
+fail=0
+
+ok() {
+    echo "  ✅ $1"
+    pass=$((pass + 1))
+}
+
+fail_bin() {
+    echo "  ❌ $1"
+    fail=$((fail + 1))
+}
+
+run_test() {
+    local label="$1"; shift
+    if "$@" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+        ok "$label"
+    else
+        fail_bin "$label"
+    fi
+}
+
+# Check a binary exists and is executable
+assert_exists() {
+    local bin="$BIN/$1"
+    if [[ ! -x "$bin" ]]; then
+        fail_bin "$1 (missing or not executable)"
+        return 1
+    fi
+    return 0
+}
+
+# Verify no absolute Homebrew paths remain in a binary's load commands
+check_paths() {
+    local label="$1"
+    local bin="$BIN/$2"
+    local bad
+    bad="$(otool -L "$bin" 2>/dev/null | awk 'NR>1 {print $1}' | grep -E '^/(opt/homebrew|usr/local)' || true)"
+    if [[ -n "$bad" ]]; then
+        fail_bin "$label (absolute Homebrew paths found: $bad)"
+    else
+        ok "$label (no absolute paths)"
+    fi
+}
+
+### ================================
+### BINARY TESTS
+### ================================
+echo "🧪 Testing linux-tools-mac bundle at: $BUNDLE_DIR"
+echo ""
+
+echo "── gnu-tar ──"
+assert_exists gtar && run_test "gtar --version" "$BIN/gtar" --version
+check_paths "gtar paths" gtar
+
+echo ""
+echo "── lzip ──"
+assert_exists lzip && run_test "lzip --version" "$BIN/lzip" --version
+check_paths "lzip paths" lzip
+
+echo ""
+echo "── makedepend ──"
+assert_exists makedepend && run_test "makedepend (no args, expect non-crash)" bash -c "'$BIN/makedepend' || true"
+check_paths "makedepend paths" makedepend
+
+echo ""
+echo "── glib ──"
+assert_exists gdbus           && run_test "gdbus --help"                          "$BIN/gdbus" --help
+assert_exists gdbus-codegen   && run_test "gdbus-codegen --help"                  "$BIN/gdbus-codegen" --help
+assert_exists gio             && run_test "gio version"                           "$BIN/gio" version
+assert_exists gio-querymodules && run_test "gio-querymodules (no crash)" bash -c "'$BIN/gio-querymodules' /nonexistent 2>/dev/null || true"
+assert_exists glib-compile-resources && run_test "glib-compile-resources --version" "$BIN/glib-compile-resources" --version
+assert_exists glib-compile-schemas   && run_test "glib-compile-schemas --version"   "$BIN/glib-compile-schemas" --version
+assert_exists glib-genmarshal        && run_test "glib-genmarshal --version"         "$BIN/glib-genmarshal" --version
+assert_exists glib-gettextize        && run_test "glib-gettextize --version" bash -c "'$BIN/glib-gettextize' --version 2>/dev/null || true"
+assert_exists glib-mkenums           && run_test "glib-mkenums --version"            "$BIN/glib-mkenums" --version
+assert_exists gobject-query          && run_test "gobject-query (no crash)" bash -c "'$BIN/gobject-query' --help 2>/dev/null || true"
+assert_exists gresource              && run_test "gresource --help"   bash -c "'$BIN/gresource' --help 2>/dev/null || true"
+assert_exists gsettings              && run_test "gsettings --help"   bash -c "'$BIN/gsettings' --help 2>/dev/null || true"
+assert_exists gtester                && run_test "gtester --version"                 "$BIN/gtester" --version
+assert_exists gtester-report         && run_test "gtester-report (no crash)" bash -c "'$BIN/gtester-report' --help 2>/dev/null || true"
+check_paths "gdbus paths" gdbus
+check_paths "gio paths" gio
+check_paths "glib-compile-schemas paths" glib-compile-schemas
+
+echo ""
+echo "── libgsf ──"
+assert_exists gsf && run_test "gsf (no crash)" bash -c "'$BIN/gsf' --help 2>/dev/null || true"
+check_paths "gsf paths" gsf
+
+echo ""
+echo "── libtool ──"
+assert_exists glibtool     && run_test "glibtool --version"     "$BIN/glibtool" --version
+assert_exists glibtoolize  && run_test "glibtoolize --version"  "$BIN/glibtoolize" --version
+check_paths "glibtool paths" glibtool
+
+echo ""
+echo "── pcre ──"
+assert_exists pcre-config  && run_test "pcre-config --version"  "$BIN/pcre-config" --version
+assert_exists pcregrep     && run_test "pcregrep --version"     "$BIN/pcregrep" --version
+assert_exists pcretest     && run_test "pcretest (no crash)" bash -c "echo | '$BIN/pcretest' 2>/dev/null || true"
+check_paths "pcregrep paths" pcregrep
+
+echo ""
+echo "── gettext ──"
+assert_exists gettext   && run_test "gettext --version"   "$BIN/gettext" --version
+assert_exists msgfmt    && run_test "msgfmt --version"    "$BIN/msgfmt" --version
+assert_exists msgmerge  && run_test "msgmerge --version"  "$BIN/msgmerge" --version
+assert_exists envsubst  && run_test "envsubst --version"  "$BIN/envsubst" --version
+assert_exists xgettext  && run_test "xgettext --version"  "$BIN/xgettext" --version
+check_paths "msgfmt paths" msgfmt
+
+echo ""
+echo "── binutils ──"
+assert_exists gar  && run_test "gar --version"  "$BIN/gar" --version
+assert_exists ar   && run_test "ar --version"   "$BIN/ar" --version
+check_paths "ar paths" ar
+
+### ================================
+### SUMMARY
+### ================================
+echo ""
+echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
+echo "Results: $pass passed, $fail failed"
+echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
+
+[[ "$fail" -eq 0 ]] || exit 1
diff --git a/packages/linux-tools-mac/build.sh b/packages/linux-tools-mac/build.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..ca94a581
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/linux-tools-mac/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -euo pipefail
+
+ROOT=$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)
+OUTPUT_DIR="${ROOT}/out/linux-tools-mac"
+ARCH="$(uname -m)"
+
+rm -rf "${OUTPUT_DIR}"
+mkdir -p "${OUTPUT_DIR}"
+
+echo ""
+echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
+echo "🏗️  Building linux-tools-mac for ${ARCH}"
+echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
+bash "$ROOT/assets/build-mac.sh" \
+    --arch "$ARCH" \
+    --output-dir "$OUTPUT_DIR" \
+    --root "$ROOT"
diff --git a/packages/linux-tools-mac/package.json b/packages/linux-tools-mac/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d0ca445f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/linux-tools-mac/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+    "name": "linux-tools-mac",
+    "version": "0.0.0",
+    "description": "Portable macOS bundle of GNU/Linux-compatible tools (gtar, lzip, glib, gettext, libgsf, libtool, pcre, makedepend, binutils) used by electron-builder when packaging Linux targets on macOS."
+}
diff --git a/packages/linux-tools/package.json b/packages/linux-tools/package.json
deleted file mode 100644
index d6092507..00000000
--- a/packages/linux-tools/package.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "name": "linux-tools",
-    "version": "0.0.0"
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pnpm-lock.yaml b/pnpm-lock.yaml
index 736ea46e..909ddcb0 100644
--- a/pnpm-lock.yaml
+++ b/pnpm-lock.yaml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ importers:
 
   packages/fpm: {}
 
-  packages/linux-tools: {}
+  packages/linux-tools-mac: {}
 
   packages/nsis: {}