On 2/8/21 10:29 AM, Tomasz CEDRO wrote:
The question is - if we can somehow run Linux and Linux64 binaries -
why don't we run macOS binaries???
These are also ELF, macOS uses lots of FreeBSD stuff, and the packages
are self contained with all libraries, so it should be even easier
than running Linux stuff (that always has some dependency issues like
I am experiencing right now running closed-source FPGA toolchains).
Libraries are the issue. Any native macOS program beyond a ported
command-line util depends on one or more macOS proprietary libraries.
Some of these are descended from NeXTSTEP, therefore some
mac-compatibility concepts have discussed using GNUSTEP as a starting
point, though there are large gaps in features by now.
A few projects over the years have gotten Mach-O/Darwin binaries to load
and execute on non-Darwin OSes, but that is only the first step, and not
useful by itself.
Did anyone consider running macOS programs on FreeBSD?
Do you know how good it would be to run macOS quality software on
FreeBSD and not really depend on Linux alternatives? :-)
Linux emulation is already working for several commercial programs while
"desktop Linux" shares in common most of the libraries of a typical
FreeBSD Xorg desktop installation, this already lends itself to better
integration than you'll find from a *STEP or WINE compatibility environment.
On 2/8/21 10:29 AM, Tomasz CEDRO wrote:
There is a nice QUCS [1] electronics simulation program (SPICE with
GUI that works out of thebox). It is based on QT4 so it was removed
from ports in March 2019. People use macOS binary with no problem.
[1] https://github.com/Qucs/
This is already an open source project, looks like emulation/porting
resources would better be spent on a QT5 migration or QT4 legacy port.
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