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> I can't even get Guix installed on bare metal on my Mac macOS is not a supported platform on Guix, right? Is there new/ongoing work to support that?
by pxc 4y ago
> I can't even get Guix installed on bare metal on my Mac
macOS is not a supported platform on Guix, right? Is there new/ongoing work to support that?
- n8henrie 4y agoCorrect. > Is there new/ongoing work to support that? Not a chance -- very focused on free, from what I gather I don't think they even allow discussion of non-free software.
- pxc 4y agoAh so have you been trying to trailblaze to port Guix to macOS a bit, then?
- rekado 4y agoThis will not work. There's no port of the GNU C Library for macOS, and there's no free toolchain that would let us build binaries for macOS. Possible routes are: - virtualization (use a GNU system on top of macOS) - arbitrarily cut the graph and graft macOS-built binaries on top of a huge binary blob specific to macOS Neither of these seem appealing.
- pxc 4y agoWhich of these approaches is used by GNU coreutils, GNU sed, GNU grep, etc., on macOS? I love having them whenever I have to use macOS.
- n8henrie 4y agoNo, not smart enough to "port" exactly, was just trying to get the aarch64 binary to run (no luck), and eventually got it working in a VM: https://n8henrie.com/2022/10/guix-system-guixsd-vm-on-an-m1-mac/ https://n8henrie.com/2022/10/guix-system-guixsd-vm-on-an-m1-...