From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ETEOf-00081I-Ml for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 04:06:34 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ETEOb-00080Y-8N for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 04:06:30 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ETEOa-00080F-7j for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 04:06:28 -0400 Received: from [72.14.204.203] (helo=qproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ETEOa-0005sb-2u for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 04:06:28 -0400 Received: by qproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id p32so21326qba for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:06:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <711013f80510220106i1f9f2c17k3baff5c08862adee@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 09:06:27 +0100 From: Steven Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] User-space emulation on Mac OS X to run Mac OS X Intel applications In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <711013f80510211316t2d3d1f5fkcab79e82cb45676b@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Yes I think this would be useful because there are situations where developers do not create universal binaries. This is most apparent with the host of applications being ported to Mac OS X on Intel that aren't compiled using GCC4 and are therefore Intel-only. And also, it might help future-proof current Macs a little, as developers won't offer Universal Binaries forever. Steve On 10/21/05, Ren=E9 Korthaus wrote: > > Am 21.10.2005 um 22:16 schrieb Steven: > > > Hi all, > > > > Looking at qemu, it seems as if it could be possible to allow it to > > run Intel OS X apps on PowerPC OS X, much like a reverse Rosetta. The > > x86 frameworks/libraries are included with Xcode, so possibly > > everything else could run natively, just have the app itself emulated. > > Anyway, I ask myself if this is useful at all?! Apple introduced > Universal Binaries along with XCode 2.1, so Intel OS X apps will run > on PPC, too, if they are Universal Binary formatted. This does make > sense for almost all apps, cause not all macusers can afford an Intel > Mac as soon as they are released and software vendors want to earn > money! > > > > > Is anybody willing to try getting this to work? > > > > Thanks, > > Steve > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Qemu-devel mailing list > > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel >