From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 17 18:46:49 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA51C1065675 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:46:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from cpoproxy1-pub.bluehost.com (cpoproxy1-pub.bluehost.com [69.89.21.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B38168FC0C for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:46:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 2190 invoked by uid 0); 17 Nov 2010 18:46:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by cpoproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 17 Nov 2010 18:46:49 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=dEuvjlLyZ2PGrxMhGkbvdlrMvlq2z2b5KiwMGM1dIQzbjYl3MpzJGejR5lU5pKRKhSOQfwmG8/sIvtPmBTY/rlzAsIH5Ij3Ue2nIqYTaPhWmsGQZVs/43RdP/BF71hI4; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PIn1r-00058q-Nv for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:46:49 -0700 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:40:23 -0700 Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:40:23 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20101117184023.GA64120@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <201011161409.18893.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> <20101117151024.00003521@unknown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101117151024.00003521@unknown> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: Does MAC version of iTunes work on FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:46:50 -0000 --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 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--