IS there a wine-like system to run OSX software on Linux?

y_farkash · Post by **y_farkash** » Sat May 01, 2010 7:57 am

Hi,

I am not sure this is the proper place to ask (and I am not sure this is the smartest question

) but, is there a project similar to wine that allows a user to run an OSX software on Linux?

Thanks!

PhantomHoover · Post by **PhantomHoover** » Sat May 01, 2010 8:42 am

There is GNUstep, which contains libraries similar to OS X's ObjC ones, but there isn't anything giving binary compatibility, AFAIK.

David Gerard · Post by **David Gerard** » Sat May 01, 2010 8:43 am

On 1 May 2010 13:57, y_farkash <[email protected]> wrote:

I am not sure this is the proper place to ask (and I am not sure this is the smartest question Â :) ) but, is there a project similar to wine that allows a user to run an OSX software on Linux?

There's Mac-On-Linux http://mac-on-linux.sourceforge.net/ for PowerPC
Macs running Linux to run Mac applications inside the Linux
installation.

If you're looking for a more universal compatiblitity layer, I don't
think there is one.

- d.

David Gerard · Post by **David Gerard** » Sat May 01, 2010 9:07 am

On 1 May 2010 14:42, PhantomHoover <[email protected]> wrote:

There is GNUstep, which contains libraries similar to OS X's ObjC ones, but there isn't anything giving binary compatibility, AFAIK.

No. Think of what Wine is - it's basically *reimplementing Windows*.
Reimplementing Mac OS X would be a slightly less huge job, as the API
is somewhat saner, Apple keep a firmer hold on it and GNUstep has done
some of the work already.

But the reason to bother isn't clear - almost no-one runs Macs for the
Mac-exclusive applications but because Mac OS X is so much nicer to
use as an integrated whole. Wine runs Windows apps on Unix, but the
result is rather clunky.

- d.