> On Sep 3, 2015, at 17:23, J. L. Brewer <jlbre...@themindstream.net> wrote: > > I came across Funk looking for a way to install arbitrary Linux packages onto > a Mac; the program isn't actually open source, it's a commercial program with > a free Linux beta. I gather fink is like cygwin on Windows in that it needs > programs compiled specifically for it, is that correct? The docs aren't as > explicit on that point as cygwin's are. > Yeah, that’s essentially impossible. OS X isn’t Linux in the same way that Cygwin isn’t Linux.
Fink, or any other porting/packaging scheme, requires some prescription for building and installing packages. If the source code isn’t available, then you’re out of luck to try to install the package via Fink or any other packaging system for OS X. The best thing I can suggest in those circumstances is to get yourself a virtualization platform and set yourself up a Linux virtual machine. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison
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