From owner-freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org Tue Feb 9 23:52:41 2021 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-desktop@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C21BA52FFC6 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2021 23:52:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from daniel@dstev.net) Received: from mail1.protonmail.ch (mail1.protonmail.ch [185.70.40.18]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "protonmail.com", Issuer "SwissSign Server Gold CA 2014 - G22" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4Db07X4hQDz4YF8 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2021 23:52:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from daniel@dstev.net) Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2021 23:52:16 +0000 From: Daniel Stevenson Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List , freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org Reply-To: Daniel Stevenson Subject: Re: [maqulator] FreeBSD running macOS binaries :-) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=10.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,MISSING_HEADERS shortcircuit=no autolearn=disabled version=3.4.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on mailout.protonmail.ch X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4Db07X4hQDz4YF8 X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=dstev.net; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of daniel@dstev.net designates 185.70.40.18 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=daniel@dstev.net X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.90 / 15.00]; HAS_REPLYTO(0.00)[daniel@dstev.net]; RWL_MAILSPIKE_VERYGOOD(0.00)[185.70.40.18:from]; REPLYTO_EQ_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:185.70.40.0/24]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-1.000]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[dstev.net,none]; MISSING_TO(2.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; RCVD_COUNT_ZERO(0.00)[0]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:62371, ipnet:185.70.40.0/24, country:CH]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-desktop]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW(-0.10)[185.70.40.18:from] X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 10:00:03 +0000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: Using and improving FreeBSD on the desktop List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2021 23:52:41 -0000 On Monday, February 8th, 2021 at 9:29 AM, Tomasz CEDRO w= rote: > Hello world :-) > > 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. > > 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). > > 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? :-) > > Hints and comments are welcome :-) > > Tomek > > [1] https://github.com/Qucs/ It's aimed at Linux, but you might be able to compile Darling[1] on FreeBSD. It doesn't support graphical applications--yet--but they are working on it. [1] https://www.darlinghq.org/ -- Daniel Stevenson