mounting Mac OS .dmg files?

[Braulio José Solano Rojas]

Hi!

On Mon, 24 de Noviembre de 2008, 12:19 am, Jiawei Ye wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Mike Meyer
> <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df at mired.org> wrote:
> --snip--
>> So while a Darwin (the OS underneath OSX) ABI would be possible -
>> though it's not clear how painful because it's not clear how visible
>> the MACH APIs are - it's not clear how useful it would be by
>> itself. You could run OSX applications that used X11 for the GUI after
>> building the appropriate libraries (just like Linux), but those apps
>> are probably available native anyway.  You couldn't run applications
>> that use the various and sundry Mac-specific graphics (among other
>> things) frameworks, not without providing code to simulate all the
>> calls provided by those frameworks - which are proprietary, and not
>> part of Darwin. Which means this project now resembles WINE more than
>> the Linux ABI layer.
>>
>>    <mike
> One open-source project at least try to replicate the frameworks on
> top of Windows:
>
> http://www.cocotron.org/
>
> As Mike mentioned this is not a trivial port and requires tweaks to
> the target application source as well. So even if one is diligent
> enough to get cocotron running on FreeBSD/Linux, the app itself will
> have to be modified to run there.

Thank you for your answers.  This list is always very educative.  It seems
like it could take years to program a Mac ABI layer.

Best regards,

B.