Re: Running binaries for other architectures on Darwin

Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Running binaries for other architectures on Darwin
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From	Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com>
Organization	Rare
Date	2011-04-13 08:47 -0700
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Geico Caveman <spammers-go-here@spam.invalid> writes:

> I have a few programs available over an NFS mount that are targetted
> at the Linux AMD64 architecture. They use Xorg/X11, which is available
> on my Mac (Xquartz).
> 
> I am running Snow Leopard on an Intel 64-bit machine. I am certain
> that if I ran Linux on the same hardware, I would be able to run those
> programs (there are linux distributions available which can transform
> a mac into a linux machine - they have been around since the PPC days).
> 
> So, far, I have been getting by with a virtual machine running lubuntu
> and running it via VMware.
> 
> My question is - is there a binary translator of some sort that will
> allow me to run these programs on the mac "natively" ? 

As far as I know, the answer is no, as it usually is to running
executables made for one operating system on a different operating
system.  (The virtual machine solution which you are already using
is as close to "yes" as one usually gets.)

The fact that both linux and OS X are layers on top of unix variants,
and the fact that they both run X windows means that you might be able
to recompile your software on OS X, if you have the source code.

But your linux executables won't work without a virtual machine.

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Running binaries for other architectures on Darwin Geico Caveman <spammers-go-here@spam.invalid> - 2011-04-08 17:19 -0500
  Re: Running binaries for other architectures on Darwin Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2011-04-08 17:34 -0500
    Re: Running binaries for other architectures on Darwin Geico Caveman <spammers-go-here@spam.invalid> - 2011-04-08 18:51 -0500
      Re: Running binaries for other architectures on Darwin Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2011-04-08 20:54 -0500
      Re: Running binaries for other architectures on Darwin Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2011-04-08 21:40 -0700
      Re: Running binaries for other architectures on Darwin Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-04-10 12:22 +0200
  Re: Running binaries for other architectures on Darwin JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2011-04-09 03:43 -0400
  Re: Running binaries for other architectures on Darwin Marko Vihoma <marko.vihoma@whereever.invalid> - 2011-04-13 09:58 +0300
  Re: Running binaries for other architectures on Darwin Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2011-04-13 08:47 -0700

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