The base shared image can't embed macos's system & UI libraries because:
- They're proprietary. Copying them from macos onto docker hub violates the macos software license.
- They change with each version of MacOS. You can't mix & match them.
I guess you could mount them into docker's filesystem, but then whats the point of using docker? And even if you did that:
- They're macos mach executable files. Linux (and therefore docker) doesn't know how to run mach executable files.
- Even if you could somehow embed them and get them to run, the libraries wouldn't work because they expect to be making syscalls to Darwin. They can't do that from inside a linux virtual machine.
You could probably make a weird RPC proxy involving a native macos process receiving network commands. But it should take a herculean effort to make it work at all, and even if you got it working it would probably be buggy (since everything would suddenly become async) and slow.
- They're proprietary. Copying them from macos onto docker hub violates the macos software license.
- They change with each version of MacOS. You can't mix & match them.
I guess you could mount them into docker's filesystem, but then whats the point of using docker? And even if you did that:
- They're macos mach executable files. Linux (and therefore docker) doesn't know how to run mach executable files.
- Even if you could somehow embed them and get them to run, the libraries wouldn't work because they expect to be making syscalls to Darwin. They can't do that from inside a linux virtual machine.
You could probably make a weird RPC proxy involving a native macos process receiving network commands. But it should take a herculean effort to make it work at all, and even if you got it working it would probably be buggy (since everything would suddenly become async) and slow.