Get Mac unique identifier number (ex.: serial number) in 64-bits

Question

how can i retrieve in Cocoa, Mac unique identifier, for ex.: serial number in 64-bit mode ?

I've followed couple articles but they were intended for 32-bit mode.

Thanks

Answer 1

Have a look at this article "How to get hardware and network info"

If you are having trouble with the 64bit architecture - or your app simply has to be a 64bit app - consider moving the IO part to a helper utility and access it using distributed objects.

Have a look at Creating XPC Services

Answer 2

Simple way is to execute:

ioreg -l | grep IOPlatformSerialNumber | awk '{print $4}'