Re: ABI compatibility with Cocoa

[Luboš Doležel]

Hello Ivan,

thanks for the link! I mailed Christine and we'll see.

Luboš

On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 15:47:55 +0200, Ivan Vučica wrote:
> Hi Luboš,
>
> Just on a side note, did you see a similar project called "Magenta"?
> Author is targeting iOS compatibility instead of OS X, but she
> primarily seems to be working on lower-level portions.
>   http://crna.cc
> I haven't tried it out yet, but you two seem to be working on similar
> things, so it might be interesting for you to get in touch.
>
> On 5. 8. 2012., at 15:32, Luboš Doležel <lubos@dolezel.info> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > as part of my diploma thesis I'm working on a userspace Darwin 
> > compatibility layer for Linux. The primary task is to get unmodified 
> > console applications running on top of a Wine-like layer. Currently, 
> > I'm working on a compatible libSystem.dylib reimplementation - i.e. 
> > resolving ABI issues and implementing missing Mach and BSD kernel 
> > calls, albeit in many cases it's just a dummy function.
> >
> > http://darling.dolezel.info/
> >
> > As a long-term aim, I would also like to get other applications 
> > running - personally especially 3D games, but ordinary GUI apps as 
> > well. One of the important pieces is Cocoa and GNUstep seems to be a 
> > good choice for dealing with AppKit implementation on Linux.
> >
> > Towards this end, I'd like to ask what you see as the biggest 
> > hurdles in ABI (not just API) compatibility when replacing Apple's 
> > AppKit with GNUstep?
> >
> > I'd like to note that I realize what I'm trying to achieve is a 
> > *tremendous* task, but well, I believe it can be done!
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Luboš Doležel
> >
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