It depends. If the code requires access to the proprietary APIs of the Apple's Aqua GUI, then the answer is no. It may be possible to get some of the Cocoa programs running on GNU-Darwin by back porting them to GNUStep, which is free software, but they do not run natively.
On the other hand, programs that depend on core *nix free software routines will port just fine. Examples in the GUI realm include Qt, GTK++, and Tk, but obviously the command line tools should work fine too.
You have an interesting question there. Please feel free to write back with anything else.
Right now I'm thinking about one shareware program: Cubase. It has it's own interface, I think it doesn't uses any other libraries from Mac OS X to draw hamself, but may be it uses some Cocoa libriries for other things. I don't know. That makes me in bad mud...
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Did anyone tried to run foreign programs, compiled for Mac OS X on GNU-Darwin?
Is it even possible?
It depends. If the code requires access to the proprietary APIs of the Apple's Aqua GUI, then the answer is no. It may be possible to get some of the Cocoa programs running on GNU-Darwin by back porting them to GNUStep, which is free software, but they do not run natively.
On the other hand, programs that depend on core *nix free software routines will port just fine. Examples in the GUI realm include Qt, GTK++, and Tk, but obviously the command line tools should work fine too.
You have an interesting question there. Please feel free to write back with anything else.
Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
Right now I'm thinking about one shareware program: Cubase. It has it's own interface, I think it doesn't uses any other libraries from Mac OS X to draw hamself, but may be it uses some Cocoa libriries for other things. I don't know. That makes me in bad mud...