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 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"