Is a Linux executable “compatible” with OS X?

Question

If you compile a program in say, C, on a Linux based platform, then port it to use the MacOS libraries, will it work?

Is the core machine-code that comes from a comp

Answer 1

Well, maybe... but most probably not.

But if it does, it's not "because both are UNIX" it's because:

• Mac computers happen to use the same processor nowadays (this was very different in the past)
• You happen to use a program that has no dependency on any library at all (very unlikely)
• You happen to use the same runtime libraries
• You happen to use a loader/binary format that is compatible with both.