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Launch Mac OS applications on Windows?

I like some Mac OSX developer apps like Coda. But I run Windows on my desktop and Mac OS X on my laptop. My question is simple: can I run Mac OS X applications on a Windows platform without having to run an entire Mac OS X virtual machine?

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It is more than possible. OSx86 documents this pretty well, but then you need to double boot to get into OSX, and that is not as perfect. I don’t know what Goz means through flakey, the OSX on the PC is identical to the Mac, sometimes better (you have the right control over the underlying hardware and you can use the BIOS to adapt it to your needs)

Congenital? How is the wine? Unfortunately, no, mainly because 99% of Mac apps aren’t just built with Mach-O, they are built against Cocoa and all the other higher-level code that Apple makes it very difficult to protect. There are even device drivers built into every OSX installation that decrypts the encrypted parts of Finder, iWork, and other other applications for third-party developers if anyone has ever been successful in emulating OSX and its frames (see DontStealMacOSX.kext)

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No, you can’t. Even the whole MacOSX virtual machine will be damn, how the hell ...

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If they are online, you can access your Mac laptop using VNC, you need to enable sharing in your mac settings, and then use the VNC client on your Windows machine.

But this seems like an imperfect solution.

It would be much easier to do the opposite and start Windows as a virtual machine under OSX. You can even import your current Windows desktop into a virtual machine using Parallels.

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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/1340651/

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