MacTux is a compatibility layer that enables you to run Linux binaries on macOS.

🚧 INCOMPLETE PROJECT 🚧

Only x86_64 is currently supported. Note that running MacTux on ARM Macs with Rosetta 2 is supported, too.

See INSTALL.md for details.

Currently, we have tested:

• musl-libc
• glibc
• GNU Coreutils
• busybox
• toybox
• Opus Tools
• SQLite 3
• bash
• dash
• Python 3
• TinyCC
• OpenSSH Client

We suggest you to run dynamically linked or static-pie binaries, due to macOS's ASLR policy have not yet been solved completely.

We have our own VFS stack, so filesystem mounts are independent to the macOS filesystem. See tools/mkrootfs/fstab for details.

~/.mactux/rootfs is the emulated root directory. Currently a minimal Alpine Linux rootfs can be installed and work.

We plan to support multimedia APIs, like D-Bus, OSS, ALSA, X11, Wayland, etc.

Currently, we have a working (but naive) implementation of OSS audio output.

We currently prioritizes to implement:

• Multi-thread support
• Epoll support
• sysfs support