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I am trying to port some apps to MachTen. Which vendors UNIX is closest to MachTen?

April 26, 2017apps closest machten port Unix vendor

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I am trying to port some apps to MachTen. Which vendors UNIX is closest to MachTen?

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Since MachTen is a straight BSD port, anything BSD is a good choice. If the source has flags for BSD, it’s a great place to start. The next best are NexT or SunOS. You will have to recompile anything that was not compiled for MachTen. O’Reilly has a good book on porting UNIX programs.