darlinghq/darling
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Darwin/macOS emulation layer for Linux
29 mentions on Hacker News by 28 people: 2 stories, 27 comments · first 2015-11-01 · latest 2026-09-02
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…of time were previously reserved to the elite few. EDIT: although it looks like some try, e.g. https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/pull/1776 https://github.com/darlinghq/darling-xnu/pull/16 Sadly, the fact that there's no response to some…
comment by cromka · 2026-09-02 · in Run macOS Software on Linux -
…probably needs more people working on it. The whole are of Metal on Vulkan looks interesting https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/issues/390#issuecomment...
comment by stuaxo · 2026-09-01 · in Run macOS Software on Linux -
…the success of WINE/Proton with Windows applications. Are you familiar with the Darling project? https://github.com/darlinghq/darling There's an open PR for ARM64 support https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/pull/1753 Could you combine…
comment by 13rac1 · 2026-08-02 · in Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM -
A quick search pointed me to https://github.com/darlinghq/darling
comment by Frenchgeek · 2025-11-01 · in Nisus Writer: Schrödinger's Word Processor -
Not quite similar, but there's darling, which only supports CLI apps for now: https://github.com/darlinghq/darling If you want a full macOS VM there's dockur's project: https://github.com/dockur/macos but no seamless mode support yet.
comment by d3Xt3r · 2025-10-08 · in WinBoat: Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration -
On this topic, similar to Wine, there is also Darling which brings Darwin to Linux. https://github.com/darlinghq/darling
comment by omeid2 · 2024-10-28 · in NewPipe on Linux, Using Android_translation_layer -
You may have luck running the macOS binaries on Linux using Darling: https://github.com/darlinghq/darling or in a Darwin or macOS VM?
comment by vitovito · 2024-06-22 · in Anyone Keep MinocaOS Toolchains? -
> A Wine-like project for macOS software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darling_(software) https://github.com/darlinghq/darling https://darlinghq.org
comment by btdmaster · 2024-01-24 · in Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source -
…a Mac. Seems possible in theory, although there's an ongoing issue some are seeing apparently: https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/issues/488
comment by asow92 · 2023-11-26 · in Darling: Run macOS Software on Linux -
There is a project like this: https://github.com/darlinghq/darling
comment by fuu_dev · 2023-05-10 · in Apple just lost its lawsuit trying to ban iOS virtual machines -
…progress on there. As of 2020, graphical app support appeared to be basic but somewhat functional: https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/issues/657 I agree that GUI apps are the real use case here. Honestly, reversing and recreating the…
comment by troad · 2023-03-23 · in SheepShaver: macOS run-time environment for BeOS and Linux -
Well, there is the Darling project. https://github.com/darlinghq/darling
comment by TheBrokenRail · 2023-01-26 · in HelloSystem – OS with original Mac philosophy with a modern architecture -
https://github.com/darlinghq/darling but it's very early.
comment by Matl · 2022-10-10 · in How Wine works 101 -
The other way around would be https://github.com/darlinghq/darling
comment by jonas-w · 2022-09-19 · in macOS Subsystem for Linux -
…I'm assuming all proprietary frameworks like the core web framework aren't implemented there. [1] https://github.com/darlinghq/darling
comment by cookiengineer · 2022-09-19 · in macOS Subsystem for Linux -
From their GitHub page[0]: "Please note that most GUI applications will not run at the moment." [0] https://github.com/darlinghq/darling
comment by gabegm · 2022-08-17 · in RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD -
…Darling[0] seems to still has some way to go until GUI programs are reliably supported. [0] https://github.com/darlinghq/darling
comment by kekebo · 2022-05-27 · in Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021) -
https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/issues/657
comment by ithkuil · 2022-01-05 · in Darling – Run Mac apps on Linux -
…Terminal apps while support for GUI apps is still limited at the moment https://www.darlinghq.org/ https://github.com/darlinghq/darling
comment by mastazi · 2021-12-19 · in Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux -
…I'm not aware of any fundamental reason that you couldn't emulate Linux syscalls on XNU. [1]: https://github.com/darlinghq/darling
comment by duskwuff · 2021-05-14 · in Lima: Linux-on-Mac -
…low activity (but not dead), but there's actually a lot of activity on the ARM branch at least: https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/commits/feature/arm-sup...
comment by asddubs · 2020-10-05 · in Darling: macOS Translation Layer for Linux -
https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/issues/542 This seems like it's a big deal.
comment by archanox · 2020-03-27 · in Darling – Run macOS software on Linux -
WSL doesn't meet the project's requirements: https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/issues/260
comment by wtracy · 2020-03-27 · in Darling – Run macOS software on Linux -
Semi-related to this is Darwin/MacOS emulation layer: Darling. https://github.com/darlinghq/darling
comment by omeid2 · 2019-01-22 · in Advanced Mac Substitute: API-level reimplementation of classic Mac OS -
Bah... I had to check what it was called and it took me a few minutes. Latest commit 19h ago https://github.com/darlinghq/darling
comment by sjukfan · 2018-12-27 · in Noah: Bash on Ubuntu on macOS -
Repo even starts in 2011. The commit log doesn't look like momentum at all though... https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/graphs/commit-activity
comment by the_duke · 2016-11-02 · in Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux -
…some of the links on the main page are 404 errors. Here it is on Github if people want to help out: https://github.com/darlinghq/darling Here are the build requirements: http://www.darlinghq.org/build-instructions
comment by orionblastar · 2015-11-01 · in GNU Hurd 0.7 has been released