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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 20:10:14 JST Aral Balkan

   Darling is a translation layer for running macOS (10.15; command-line) apps on Linux. It’s built on Darwin and is similar to WINE.

   Might be interesting if, say, you want to look into maybe supporting your command-line app on macOS without having to pay Apple a few grand every-so-many years or mess with setting up a virtual machine for an operating system that doesn’t want to run on any device Tim Cook doesn’t personally profit from.

   https://www.darlinghq.org/

   #darling #darwin #macOS #linux

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 20:14:28 JST Aral Balkan

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     The downside is you have to build it yourself. The upside of the downside is that the build instructions* are actually really good and I didn’t run into any trouble even when building in a Distrobox container running Fedora 36 on my host system running Fedora Silverblue 37.

     I did get a few warnings on launch** but I was able to install homebrew and the Xcode command-line tools without problem.

     * https://docs.darlinghq.org/build-instructions.html
     ** https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/issues/1248

     #darling #darwin #macOS #linux

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 20:31:06 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Diogo Constantino

     @DiogoConstantino Multipass is neat if you want to, say, run Ubuntu on Mac but Darling lets you do the opposite: run ~macOS (Darwin) on Linux.

   • Diogo Constantino (diogoconstantino@masto.pt)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 20:31:07 JST Diogo Constantino

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     @aral Alternatively there's Multipass (https://multipass.run/). It does use VMs (hyperkit on intel, qemu on M1), but it takes care of it for you, and the setup is much simpler because it does have a pkg or you can use brew (https://multipass.run/docs/installing-on-macos).

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 20:50:42 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Diogo Constantino

     @DiogoConstantino No worries, Diogo :)

   • Diogo Constantino (diogoconstantino@masto.pt)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 20:50:43 JST Diogo Constantino

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     @aral I read it wrong :(

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 21:04:27 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Baudouin Feildel
     • Sergey Bugaev

     @amdg2 @bugaevc Ah, neat. I’m apparently already following.

   • Baudouin Feildel (amdg2@diaspodon.fr)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 21:04:28 JST Baudouin Feildel

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     • Sergey Bugaev

     @aral on mastodon there is @bugaevc who is working on Darling.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 21:24:15 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Baudouin Feildel
     • Sergey Bugaev
     • LubosD
     • Ariel Abreu

     @bugaevc Thanks, followed.

     @amdg2 @LubosD @facekapow @curioustommy

   • Sergey Bugaev (bugaevc@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 21:24:16 JST Sergey Bugaev

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     • Baudouin Feildel
     • LubosD
     • Ariel Abreu

     @aral @amdg2 since recently, there are a few more of us Darling devs on :mastodon:!

     @LubosD
     @facekapow
     @curioustommy

   • Diogo Constantino (diogoconstantino@masto.pt)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 23:46:55 JST Diogo Constantino

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     • Nuno F :pingu:
     • Wimpy
     • Yannick (FrenchguyCH)

     @nunof Interesting!

     There's also @wimpy QuickEmu, which does support MacOS VMs (among many other options)
     https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

     There's even a GUI made by @frenchguych:
     https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickgui

     @aral

   • Nuno F :pingu: (nunof@ciberlandia.pt)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 23:47:06 JST Nuno F :pingu:

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     • Diogo Constantino

     @DiogoConstantino @aral

     There is also Docker-OSX which is more convenient (and performant)

     https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 23:47:41 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Diogo Constantino
     • Nuno F :pingu:
     • Wimpy
     • Yannick (FrenchguyCH)

     @DiogoConstantino @nunof

     Thanks, both; will check them out :)

     @wimpy @frenchguych