Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:19:23 +0800 From: "Jiawei Ye" <leafy7382@gmail.com> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting Mac OS .dmg files? Message-ID: <c21e92e20811232219m333e53cdn87d6931eb58c69e7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081124002133.500eec9e@bhuda.mired.org> References: <4927E659.3010602@kukulies.org> <C93A045C-8070-453B-8533-43947CA9A823@gid.co.uk> <44979.201.198.34.106.1227489354.squirrel@webmail7.pair.com> <20081124002133.500eec9e@bhuda.mired.org>
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On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org> wrote: --snip-- > So while a Darwin (the OS underneath OSX) ABI would be possible - > though it's not clear how painful because it's not clear how visible > the MACH APIs are - it's not clear how useful it would be by > itself. You could run OSX applications that used X11 for the GUI after > building the appropriate libraries (just like Linux), but those apps > are probably available native anyway. You couldn't run applications > that use the various and sundry Mac-specific graphics (among other > things) frameworks, not without providing code to simulate all the > calls provided by those frameworks - which are proprietary, and not > part of Darwin. Which means this project now resembles WINE more than > the Linux ABI layer. > > <mike One open-source project at least try to replicate the frameworks on top of Windows: http://www.cocotron.org/ As Mike mentioned this is not a trivial port and requires tweaks to the target application source as well. So even if one is diligent enough to get cocotron running on FreeBSD/Linux, the app itself will have to be modified to run there. Cheers, Jiawei -- "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then to the end user it's a duck, and end users have made it pretty clear they want a duck; whether the duck drinks hot chocolate or coffee is irrelevant."
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