Darling – Run Mac apps on Linux
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Darling – Run Mac apps on Linux
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Re: Darling – Run Mac apps on Linux
#2I assume this is not command line only? If so, you really need some screenshots.
Re: Darling – Run Mac apps on Linux
#3There's still a long way to go, especially if you want GUI apps.
If you want to contribute there is an active community on Discord.
Re: Darling – Run Mac apps on Linux
#4I assume this is not command line only? If so, you really need some screenshots.
I suggest actually reading the page since it has the answer to your question.
TL;DR: GUI almost working. I assume screenshots will be added when it is.
Re: Darling – Run Mac apps on Linux
#5I assume this is not command line only? If so, you really need some screenshots.
> Does it support GUI apps?
> Almost! This took us a lot of time and effort, but we finally have basic experimental support for running simple graphical applications.
So, I guess for now it makes sense there are no screenshots
Re: Darling – Run Mac apps on Linux
#6I assume this is not command line only? If so, you really need some screenshots.
I suggest actually reading the page since it has the answer to your question. TL;DR: GUI almost working. I assume screenshots will be added when it is.
Not to in any way put down the developers on this, because I realize this is a hard problem, but it's been "almost working" for roughly five years. I don't think we should hold our breath on it, sadly.
Re: Darling – Run Mac apps on Linux
#7Has anyone been able to use darling for iOS CI jobs yet? Admittedly I haven't researched this in a while, but one of the biggest hurdles in large scale iOS development is sane DevOps infrastructure. I know due to Apple's TOS that you will never be able to build, sign, and distribute your app on non-Apple hardware. But i'd love to use darling to run unit tests/CI jobs on commodity cloud infrastructure.
Even if you do get dedicated mac instances, managing them is a bit of a nightmare since MacOS isn't designed to be headless.
Re: Darling – Run Mac apps on Linux
#8Excited to see this. Hopefully this resolves the application portability issue for Linux (e.g. Microsoft Office native apps)
Re: Darling – Run Mac apps on Linux
#9This is cool, would love to be able to use this on FreeBSD as well.
Re: Darling – Run Mac apps on Linux
#10Excited to see this. Hopefully this resolves the application portability issue for Linux (e.g. Microsoft Office native apps)
If you want to run apps like Microsoft Office, Wine is probably a far better bet. I'd be surprised if Darling runs complex Cocoa apps anytime soon.