Ars Technica: OS X apps run on Linux with Wine-like emulator for Mac software

GPS · Aug 7, 2013

Linux users who want to run Windows applications without switching operating systems have been able to do so for years with Wine, software that lets apps designed for Windows run on Unix-like systems.

There has been no robust equivalent allowing Mac applications to run on Linux, perhaps no surprise given that Windows is far and away the world's most widely used desktop operating system. A developer from Prague named Luboš Doležel is trying to change that with "Darling," an emulation layer for OS X.

"The aim is to achieve binary compatible support for Darwin/OS X applications on Linux, plus provide useful tools that will aid especially in application installation," Doležel's project page states. Darwin is Apple's open source operating system, which provides some of the backend technology in OS X and iOS. The name "Darling" combines Darwin and Linux. Darling works by "pars[ing] executable files for the Darwin kernel... load[ing] them into the memory... and execut[ing] them."
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