how open .Appimage on MacOS X?

[KDGNOR]

$ arch
$ i386

$ chmod a+x filename-i386.AppImage
$ zsh: exec format error: /Users/kdg/Desktop/Subsurface-4.5.1.251-i386.AppImage

i try install FUSE for mac but it still give same error 👎

OS : MacOS 10.6.8
Got: Homebrew 1.0.5

thanks for everything that can help me 👍

[probonopd]

AppImages cannot be executed on macOS, but you can use other tools to unpack them. Rename to something.iso and open that. Or use bsdtar to unpack. (This is valid for type 1 AppImages.)

[KDGNOR]

thanks for for replay 👍
renmae something.appimage to something.iso did not work for me.
but bsdtar did work great for unpack-it but not open it as a Application.
next i try:
$ zsh: exec format error: /Users/kdg/Desktop/Subsurface/usr/bin/subsurface
try renmae it to
$ zsh: exec format error: /Users/kdg/Desktop/Subsurface/usr/bin/subsurface.sh
did not help me at all 👎

not sure open .desktop on mac at all 👎

so some way to trick mac os x to open .appimage as a app?

workaround/tricks/drityTrick....

thanks for everything that can help me 👍

[probonopd]

You cannot run Linux applications on macOS, I am sure you are aware of that?

[KDGNOR]

so Appimage can not trick mac os x to run linux apps?

i can use macport/homebrew install bsd/linux-apps + X11 apps too

[probonopd]

No, AppImage can't make macOS run apps compiled for Linux.
macport/homebrew apps are specifically compiled for macOS and won't run on Linux.

[KDGNOR]

can i mabye build a macport/homebrew .appimage 👍 ?

[probonopd]

Possibly. But it will not let you run applications compiled for Linux on macOS either. What do you want to achieve in the end?

[sdubois]

What would be really cool is a macOS program that runs .appimage files inside a Linux VM that's running in the background. Imagine dragging a .appimage file into a macOS program and having it run as its own macOS process.

[probonopd]

Just run a Linux VM, and then download and run AppImages there?

[csirollilmco]

We would need a WSL but on macOS, a MSL - macOS Subsystem for Linux. Then we could run AppImages on macOS like we can on Windows.

[sdubois]

https://github.com/linux-noah/noah

[csirollilmco]

@sdubois was just looking at that. Someone ought to continue work on it. Would be good to have.

[capnslipp]

Also worth looking at: https://github.com/karton/karton

Seems to take the approach of Wine, but for Linux apps on other *nix distros (including macOS).