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. Cheers, Jiawei -- "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then to the end user it's a duck, and end users have made it pretty clear they want a duck; whether the duck drinks hot chocolate or coffee is irrelevant." _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
