It would help if you provided a link or something. Because I have no idea what darling is.
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like wine but for mac instead of windows. https://www.darlinghq.org/
Should this be posted in an Apple/Mac group then?
Maybe, probs, I did not think of that ig. But I do feel that would be like posting something about wine in a windows group, it does not affect mac users of course the size of the community and proyect might change some stuff maybe. Or maybe it's also because of the kind of question. idk
I get it. No, I misunderstood and thought this was software for Mac.
l'd be shocked if it didn't support x86.
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.
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.
I'm fairly sure if it's a layer like WINE, which is not an emulator, it won't be able to run software for a different architecture. I mean if it only translates the system calls, you still need software that runs on your CPU. Otherwise it'd be an emulator / virtualization.
But is Apple going to stop distributing software for x86 soon? It's been a mere 3 years since they (still) sold x86 Mac Pros.
I think so at least. That's why they say hackingtosh is gonna die. At least as far as my understanding goes cuz they will stop supporting intel or already stopped this update or something like that. Devs will obviously stop supporting x86 too.
If it was just intel and they used x86 people with intel could still run a lot of apps just not the ones that require like new features.