Re: Is there possible run a MacOS X binary

From: Nilton Jose Rizzo <rizzo_at_i805.com.br>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 19:45:53 -0300
Em Wed, 07 Dec 2016 18:57:36 +0000, K. Macy escreveu
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> A MachO activator is indeed not useful without an OSX install.
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> But let's be honest, Mach IPC is a loadable kernel module requiring 
> no real kernel changes. It's not upstreamable because of a general poor
> understanding of IPC by noisy commentators and a religious aversion 
> to a technology perceived as having failed in the marketplace of ideas.
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> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:45 Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> wrote:
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> > On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Kevin P. Neal <kpn_at_neutralgood.org>
> > wrote:
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> > > On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 02:49:07PM -0300, Nilton Jose Rizzo wrote:
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> > >>  Sorry for cross posting (-current and -ports)
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> > >> Is there any emulator like linuxator to run Mac OS X binaries, or
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> > >> is ther any licensing problem?
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> > > It may be possible to make an emulator for Darwin (the OS that Mac OS
> > sits
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> > > on top of), but an emulator for Mac OS would probably require a legal
> > copy
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> > > of Mac OS.
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> > > So, no, there is no Mac OS emulator for FreeBSD. And I'd be surprised if
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> > > it ever happened.
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> > NetBSD has (or had) a macho image activator, which is the first step
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> > in this process. But Kevin is right that most of the functionality of
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> > MacOS isn't in the kernel, and you'd need a copy of MacOS to run it in
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> > emulation. Plus there's a lot of Mach code that MacOS depends on that
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> > has no simple counterparts in FreeBSD, and that would be a lot of work
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> > to make happen. It's one of the things that's a barrier to entry for a
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> > simple, straight forward launchd port, for example.
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   Thankx for all comments.  I know and understood all difficult.
   
   I'll have to spend my money on the purchase a Machintosh machine.

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