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

[David Gerard]

On 1 May 2010 14:42, PhantomHoover <wineforum-user at winehq.org> 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.