Darling: macOS compatibility for Linux

Posted Jul 31, 2019 1:15 UTC (Wed) by k8to (guest, #15413)
In reply to: Darling: macOS compatibility for Linux by bovinespirit
Parent article: Darling: macOS compatibility for Linux

You can't really test Mac applications in this environment.

Mac applications break in all kinds of ways across minor macosx versions. Vetting them in this environment wound tell you very little.

Building would be even sketchier. You need the entire system library set, not just a compatability layer.

Darling: macOS compatibility for Linux

Posted Jul 31, 2019 13:18 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Why would building be even sketchier? Personally, I'm interested in this as a way to containerize our macOS builds (then shipping the build trees to a macOS box for actual testing) since getting hermetic, reproducible macOS builds isn't possible until Apple cares enough to implement containers for their platform.