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Date:      Wed, 7 Dec 2016 18:45:16 +0000
From:      David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Kevin P. Neal" <kpn@neutralgood.org>
Cc:        Nilton Jose Rizzo <rizzo@i805.com.br>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is there possible run a MacOS X binary
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In-Reply-To: <20161205193106.GA72310@neutralgood.org>
References:  <20161205161541.M51118@i805.com.br> <20161205174757.M9255@i805.com.br> <20161205193106.GA72310@neutralgood.org>

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On 5 Dec 2016, at 19:31, Kevin P. Neal <kpn@neutralgood.org> wrote:
>=20
>> Is there any emulator like linuxator to run Mac OS X binaries, or=20
>> is ther any licensing problem?
>=20
> It may be possible to make an emulator for Darwin (the OS that Mac OS =
sits
> on top of), but an emulator for Mac OS would probably require a legal =
copy
> of Mac OS.
>=20

NetBSD started working on one, and had it at a state where it could run =
the Darwin version of XFree86 (which should give you some idea of how =
old it was), but it couldn=E2=80=99t run the Mac Window Server and I =
don=E2=80=99t think it=E2=80=99s maintained. It=E2=80=99s not very =
interesting, because you need all of the frameworks and programs from OS =
X for it to be useful, and the license prohibits using them in such a =
way (and even if you did get it to work, you wouldn=E2=80=99t be able to =
run Mac apps at the same time as X apps without running XQuartz, and at =
that point you may as well just run macOS).

There is a more recent project called Darling =
(https://www.darlinghq.org) that tries to run Mac apps on Linux using a =
custom Mach-O loader, bits of GNUstep, and some of their own stuff.  No =
one has ever tried using it on FreeBSD, to the best of my knowledge.  =
It=E2=80=99s GPLv3, so I=E2=80=99m not motivated to contribute to it =
(though it does incorporate some of my code in various places).

David


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