Ubuntu – Running OS X Apps On Ubuntu 14.04

14.04

Is there any way that still works to run OS X apps on Ubuntu 14.04? If Darling still works, please tell me how to install it.

Thanks. 🙂

Best Answer

OK, it took me a while to figure out the whole install, but I don't know how to successfully use Darling yet.

Below is the step-by-step procedure I followed to get Darling installed, and some of the steps were followed from the README.md from the git repository.

Open a terminal and run the following commands:

First install the tools to build and make darling.

sudo apt-get install git cmake clang bison flex xz-utils libfuse-dev libxml2-dev libicu-dev libssl-dev libbz2-dev zlib1g-dev libudev-dev linux-headers-generic

Run git to download the darling source files.

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/darlinghq/darling.git

One-by-one copy and paste the following to build, make and install the darling application.

cd darling
mkdir -p build/x86-64
cd build/x86-64
cmake ../.. -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=../../Toolchain-x86_64.cmake
make
sudo make install

One-by-one copy and paste the following to build, make and install the Kernel module.

cd ../../src/lkm
make
sudo make install

For some reason the Kernel module didn't install correctly, so the next 3 lines copy and install it for you.

sudo cp darling-mach.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/
sudo bash -c 'echo "darling-mach" >> /etc/modules'
sudo depmod

I recommend a reboot for the Kernel modules to load correctly.

sudo reboot

After the reboot, you can check to see if it loaded correctly.

terrance@terrance-ubuntu:~$ darling shell
Darling [~]$ uname -a 
Darwin terrance-ubuntu 12.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 12.0.0 x86_64
Darling [~]$ exit
exit

Hope this helps!

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