This sounds a bit like WineBottler:
http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/
On 10.10.19 20:48, Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode wrote:
Being a mad scientist causes my mind to wander. I implied some sort of
application that would take a 32-bit macOS app and turn it into a 64-bit app
suitable for delivering to customers in the interim. But I gave solutions only
for a sophisticated user to run 32-bit applications from Catalina (or so)
desktop.
My immediate thoughts: Bundles might make a conversion for the macOS easier.
Dependent 32-bit dynamic libraries would have to be moved into a folder in the
bundle, and file I/O will do redirection. The app's program would be moved and
replaced with something else that uses some sort of hyper-something to catch
the INTs or that will use ptrace() as a debugger would. In the latter case the
INTs might need to be translated statically by the converter. I have not made a
modern debugger, tracer or hyper-thing, so I'm just guessing.
Dar
On Oct 10, 2019, at 8:34 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
Mad scientist indeed! ;-)
Bob S
On Oct 9, 2019, at 16:59 , Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
Oh. That looks hard. I don't even know how to take control of the 0x80
interrupt.
However, here are some ideas for alternatives.
Virtual
Parallels has Coherence; Virtual Box has Seamless Mode; VMware has Unity. (I
don't use these, so check out what I say.) The capability is roughly the same.
You can run an application on a client OS in a window on the host. So, if you
have an older macOS running on a virtual machine that can run your app, you can
set things up so that you can double-click on your desktop and run a 32-bit app.
Real
Another method is to set up little "servers" you can remote into. For example,
instead of upgrading to Catalina on your old Mac Mini, get a new Mac Mini with Catalina
and remote desktop into the old Mac Mini. Or have a Mac that is running several virtual
machines you can remote into (use memory ballooning to share it well). The Apple EULA has
constraints, but I think this is OK.
Now, what if you can run an app on a remote machine like Coherence/Unity/SM?
You can readily run a single app in a window for a linux server using several
programs such as nomachine and (I think) xpra. But I don't know about macOS.
Maybe you can make a single-window app full screen and adjust the size of the
client window. I haven't tried this.
Dar Scott
Mad Scientist
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