Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 18:57:36 +0000 From: "K. Macy" <kmacy@freebsd.org> To: "Kevin P. Neal" <kpn@neutralgood.org>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, Nilton Jose Rizzo <rizzo@i805.com.br> Subject: Re: Is there possible run a MacOS X binary Message-ID: <CAHM0Q_MeZPNVmTFkQLC9z8=ABXiCSyOCDS2b5vDo7L0QKt8FeA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfogLy2o27Cz3jh-uYMnZOBB3N=m6SzSMw7WkCvzP4mZ5w@mail.gmail.com> References: <20161205161541.M51118@i805.com.br> <20161205174757.M9255@i805.com.br> <20161205193106.GA72310@neutralgood.org> <CANCZdfogLy2o27Cz3jh-uYMnZOBB3N=m6SzSMw7WkCvzP4mZ5w@mail.gmail.com>
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> > > A MachO activator is indeed not useful without an OSX install. But let's be honest, Mach IPC is a loadable kernel module requiring no real kernel changes. It's not upstreamable because of a general poor understanding of IPC by noisy commentators and a religious aversion to a technology perceived as having failed in the marketplace of ideas. On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:45 Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Kevin P. Neal <kpn@neutralgood.org> > wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 02:49:07PM -0300, Nilton Jose Rizzo wrote: > > >> > > >> > > >> Sorry for cross posting (-current and -ports) > > >> > > >> > > >> Is there any emulator like linuxator to run Mac OS X binaries, or > > >> is ther any licensing problem? > > > > > > It may be possible to make an emulator for Darwin (the OS that Mac OS > sits > > > on top of), but an emulator for Mac OS would probably require a legal > copy > > > of Mac OS. > > > > > > So, no, there is no Mac OS emulator for FreeBSD. And I'd be surprised if > > > it ever happened. > > > > NetBSD has (or had) a macho image activator, which is the first step > > in this process. But Kevin is right that most of the functionality of > > MacOS isn't in the kernel, and you'd need a copy of MacOS to run it in > > emulation. Plus there's a lot of Mach code that MacOS depends on that > > has no simple counterparts in FreeBSD, and that would be a lot of work > > to make happen. It's one of the things that's a barrier to entry for a > > simple, straight forward launchd port, for example. > > > > > > >
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