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Will darling work on x86_64? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago by ButteredBread@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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(I know the proyect basically just supports cli at the moment) Mac is stopping to support intel and all that from what I understand making mac apps arm only (eventually) (and also hackingtosh impossible but unrelated).

The proyect's page says nothing about this. It does say it also plans to support ios for arm devices which thinking about it would probably also mean running ios apps in android. Regardless, I was saying, wouldn't running mac apps be impossible without an arm -> x86_64 translation layer/emulator? I know about stuff that do the opposite like box86 or crossover, but yea, idk.

Is my thinking incorrect or why is this not mentioned anywhere?

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[–] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In theory, Mac's Mach-O executable format supports multi-architecture binaries that can work on both arm64 and x86_64. But I know nothing about Apple's plans to drop support for x86_64 in X-Code. After this happen, developers will provide arm64-only binaries.

[–] signofzeta@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 day ago

It’ll probably happen in the next few years. Compiling for PowerPC went away after macOS dropped it, and it was the same story for i386. Running and targeting x86_64 will soon be a distant memory.

That being said, if you have a Mac/Hackintosh/VM with an older Xcode, keep it! You can still compile with the old version, compile with the new version, and stick the results together with the lipo command. I wrote a simple C CLI app and I can put five architectures in one binary if I want (ppc, ppc64, i386, x86_64, arm64) and it’ll run on any macOS/Mac OS X version ever made.