Intel Based Macs and DMD?

[John Reimer]

Anders F Björklund wrote:
> John Reimer wrote:
> 
>> But doesn't Darwin have a Linux compatibility layer equivalent to 
>> FreeBSD?  It may be easier to get DMD working on Darwin then we 
>> realize now that Intel is the processor base.  GDC is good, but DMD 
>> would be better for this machine for a number of reasons.
> 
> Not that I know of*, but NetBSD could run Darwin binaries I think ?
> (i.e. the other way around) I don't have any Intel Mac yet though...
> 
> All I've seen for Mac OS X are *source-level* compatibility layers.
> Not like http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/linuxemu.html
> 
> 


That was the case when Mac OS X was on PowerPC for sure.  But I was 
hoping the linux-compat package would be popularized/fixed with the 
release of Intel Macs.  From the googling I've done, though, it appears 
that you are right about this.


> BTW:
> Darwin has been "universal" from the beginning, and even before that.
> (OS X hasn't, offically) http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/
> 


Yes, I know this, Anders. But it's not until Intel Macs came out that 
this had any relevance for most people.  Darwin on Intel, as far as I 
know, wasn't extremely popular.  Now it has raison d'être.



> --anders
> 
> 
> * there are some wild such rumors flying around for Mac OS X 10.5,
>   possibly even including Windows support (like the WINE project)


You mean something like this?

http://darwine.opendarwin.org