Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:44:13 -0600 (CST) From: Braulio =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Solano_Rojas?= <braulio@solsoft.co.cr> To: "Jiawei Ye" <leafy7382@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org> Subject: Re: mounting Mac OS .dmg files? Message-ID: <47774.201.198.34.106.1227541453.squirrel@webmail7.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <c21e92e20811232219m333e53cdn87d6931eb58c69e7@mail.gmail.com> 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> <c21e92e20811232219m333e53cdn87d6931eb58c69e7@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi! On Mon, 24 de Noviembre de 2008, 12:19 am, Jiawei Ye wrote: > 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. Thank you for your answers. This list is always very educative. It seems like it could take years to program a Mac ABI layer. Best regards, B.
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