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According to this Wikipedia article:

OS X is a series of Unix-based graphical interface operating systems developed and marketed by Apple Inc.

so i was thinking:

• is there any similar application to Wine but runs Mac applications?




• is it possible at to run Mac OS X applications on a Linux machine?

Darling (link) is a project that aims to become analogous to wine. Currently it only runs some command-line OSX programs, though.

As long as the developers of the OS X program released their source code and used cross-platform libraries (such as QT, GTK, X11, GNUStep or WxWidgets) you should be able to re-compile an OS X program for linux. OS X and Linux are much more compatible at the API level than the ABI level.

GNUStep implements the Cocoa APIs of NEXTStep and OS X. This only works on the source-code (API) level, so it works if a program is open-source and uses Apple's Cocoa GUI (NOT "Aqua" which is proprietary).

Think of the API, or Application Programming Interface, as something like a car's dashboard - everything is visible to the driver of the car, and you can get into someone else's car and find his different dashboard just as easy to figure out.

Think of the ABI, or Application Binary Interface, as the engine of the car - it can vary greatly between makes and models, and you probably won't be able to trade your Ford engine into a Volvo very easily.

Darling would in this analogy be converting the Ford engine to a Volvo chassis, and compiling from source would be like just getting out of your Ford and getting into the Volvo. One is much simpler to do than the other.

But Apple has some proprietary user interface libraries that no one else has, too. If the developer used one of these (such as Aqua), you'll have to wait and hope that Darling grows up like Wine did, or port it yourself. If there is no source code released, it'd be like if the engine was made so that it could only possibly fit in a ford and no amount of work would ever change that, unless someone is an absolute insane maniac who has months of free time and ridiculous amount of dedication.

Additionally, GNUStep is not 100% complete in terms of coverage of the Cocoa API's, so some shoehorning is likely still going to be necessary for complex programs. And GNUStep does not provide an xcode-equivalent build system - that is, if the original developer used the XCode IDE's "build" system exclusively, you may be left writing makefiles for it.

And now? Any work?
I read it, and searching for it.
Can you help me?

Fine. Thanks