On 26/09/2011 3:07 PM, Peter Wilson wrote:
Hi,
Quick question, might be silly, but is there a version of Wine that can be installed on windows or linux to create apps for Mac?
I just want to keep my mac clean and try run things in a dev environment, and apple are always so polite to make visualization a pain…
Thank you very much for you help,
Kind Regards,
Peter Wilson
Wine is an implementation of the Windows APIs that will run on Linux and Mac OS X (and others).
It sounds like you are asking for a binary-compatible implementation of the Carbon / Cocoa APIs that will run on Linux or Windows, as well as a Windows or Linux hosted development environment targeted to the Carbon / Cocoa APIs.
If you are the one developing the application, why not use one of the cross-platform graphical libraries such as SDL, GTK+, wxWidgets, etc.
If the application uses 3D graphics, many of those cross-platform graphical libraries also have support for OpenGL.
If you don't want to have to re-compile between your host platform and your target platform, then you'd have to use something like Java or Mono to build a platform-independent binary, use Python or similar, or install Wine on the Mac and create a Windows binary.