Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:40:23 -0700 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does MAC version of iTunes work on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20101117184023.GA64120@guilt.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20101117151024.00003521@unknown> References: <201011161409.18893.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> <AANLkTimGay=HjDhLjK9CgiSNKmWYNm-qLF8oCrh9m2A4@mail.gmail.com> <20101117151024.00003521@unknown>
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--uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 03:10:24PM +0000, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:26:21 -0500 > Nathan Vidican <nathan@vidican.com> wrote: >=20 > > No. The Mac version of iTunes depends on the Cocoa application > > framework, which is a set of Objective C objects that, as far as I am > > aware of, has no compatible framework under FreeBSD. >=20 > The only vaguely compatible framework is GNUstep, which has at least > partial support for the Cocoa APIs. Apparently it would be best to start > with GNUstep and move an application to OS X though since there are so > many features from MacOS that aren't implemented. Note that this is > completely separate from binary compatibility: as far as I know > nobody's working on Mach-O compatbility on FreeBSD so applications > would need to be recompiled. >=20 > http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Cocoa There's also Cocotron: http://www.cocotron.org/ I've never used it, though, so I have no idea what level of compatibility it offers, and it appears to be mostly focused on MS Windows platforms right now. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkzkIZcACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKXFFwCgluj3zsuQrtdPUs+Aqeys5pSo RPsAn2uuv9JGL6XKmlCWDyjv5GA5cORk =sysy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm--
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