Is osx binary compatible with linux?

"All The Mac Pepole." <All_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:b9kj82$1a64$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>
> >Since they're 95% identical, I thought it'd be less confusing to combine them.
> >
> Walter ! I saw all the Mac os threads and the last few of Linux , I 'm
just
> curious if it would a big
> deal to get it working on the Mac, since it is very close to Linux ,so
far, that
> if want you could
> partition the Mac machine and install Unix , and also the Mac osx I think
is a
> quite a bit more
> popular tha Linux.
> If you get that then it would be a true cross plattform language. I think
you
> should consider it and
> automaticlly "D" will gain much more and much faster popularity .
> Please consider!! Thanks.
>
>

Use ar -r to create the archive, not ar rcs. Check /dmd/src/phobos/linux.mak for an example.

On Sun, 11 May 2003 01:21:28 -0700, Walter wrote:

> Is osx binary compatible with linux?
> 

OS X is based on the Darwin kernel which is, in turn, a derivative a
BSD Unix kernel.  Most of the BSD Unix flavors support a linux kernel
compatibility layer, so that most binaries from linux can be run without
change on the BSDs (provided they are compiled for the CPU architecture,
of course; in this case, powerpc).  That said, I don't know how well
darwin carries over the support for the linux compatibility layer, or if it
even does for the PowerPC architecture.  This may be an x86 only feature.

Later,

John

"Walter" <walter@digitalmars.com> escribió en el mensaje
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| Use ar -r to create the archive, not ar rcs. Check
/dmd/src/phobos/linux.mak
| for an example.
|
|

No luck either. I'm gonna give up by now. Thanks anyway.

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"John Reimer" <jjreimer@telus.net> wrote in message news:pan.2003.05.11.12.16.06.842563@telus.net...
> On Sun, 11 May 2003 01:21:28 -0700, Walter wrote:
> > Is osx binary compatible with linux?
> >
>
> OS X is based on the Darwin kernel which is, in turn, a derivative a BSD Unix kernel.  Most of the BSD Unix flavors support a linux kernel compatibility layer, so that most binaries from linux can be run without change on the BSDs (provided they are compiled for the CPU architecture, of course; in this case, powerpc).  That said, I don't know how well darwin carries over the support for the linux compatibility layer, or if
it
> even does for the PowerPC architecture.  This may be an x86 only feature.

Beign a powerpc is a whole 'nother problem. I don't have a ppc code generator.

On Sun, 11 May 2003 12:04:57 -0700, Walter wrote:

> 
> Beign a powerpc is a whole 'nother problem. I don't have a ppc code generator.

Yes, I realized that to be the real problem after I posted :-P.

"John Reimer" <jjreimer@telus.net> wrote in message news:pan.2003.05.11.19.39.42.931720@telus.net...
> On Sun, 11 May 2003 12:04:57 -0700, Walter wrote:
> > Beign a powerpc is a whole 'nother problem. I don't have a ppc code generator.
> Yes, I realized that to be the real problem after I posted :-P.

Perhaps you could write Apple and tell them they should do an x86 Apple !!

On Sun, 11 May 2003 16:38:16 -0700, Walter wrote:

> 
> "John Reimer" <jjreimer@telus.net> wrote in message news:pan.2003.05.11.19.39.42.931720@telus.net...
>> On Sun, 11 May 2003 12:04:57 -0700, Walter wrote:
>> > Beign a powerpc is a whole 'nother problem. I don't have a ppc code generator.
>> Yes, I realized that to be the real problem after I posted :-P.
> 
> Perhaps you could write Apple and tell them they should do an x86 Apple !!

LOL, with Apples history and Jobs at the helm? This would be a great evil from their perspective... but I would love it!  Steve Jobs seems to rely heavily on his powerful RDF (Reality Distortion Field), which he is so famous for; so he does better when he has control over the hardware.

Oh, there's been rumors upon rumors about Apple conniving with AMD for a AMD64-based Apple, but I don't think it'll happen.  Mind you Darwin is ported to x86 already.  The hang-up is Jobs and his worries about all those nasty cloners :-).

Later,

John