Is there a chance to see IMatch one day on a Mac?

[Menace]

Hi Mario,

this is no question for me; I never want to buy a Mac. But I currently have a discussion (because of Aperture's End) if someone know about a good DAM (or how good is PSU). I just can recommend IMatch. Is there a plan to build a Mac-Version? I guess not, but who I am... 

[jch2103]

A closely related question is for Mac users who have gotten IMatch to work on a Mac:

How did you do it? (I recall some postings here about this, but I'm not sure if there's a really good answer.)

[Mario]

There will never be a Mac version of IMatch. It would me take years to create one.
You can run IMatch under native Windows on a Intel Mac, or on one of the virtualization solutions e.g. VirtualBox or the Apple offerings.

[Menace]

Thank you, Mario, for your answer. I have no idea about programming (just thought, because both have X86 CPUs, there are some possibility to put the windows version in a compiler (?) and get something like a raw-Software).

[Mario]

This is how you work with Intel Macs. You can boot Windows as well.
There are also solutions which allow you to run Windows software directly under OS/X, e.g. VirtualBox:

http://www.howtogeek.com/187359/5-ways-to-run-windows-software-on-a-mac/

[Menace]

Thank you, again. I'll post this in the forum.

[Ferdinand]

Bibble 5 and Aftershot Pro run on all three major OS.  The (original) developers said that this was only possible because they designed the program from the ground up as a multi-OS one.  They build it using cross platform libraries, like Qt.  Taking a developed program like IMatch which is Win only and porting it to a Mac is pretty much starting from scratch, as I understand it.  It doesn't happen.  Not without a lot of resources.   It may be a bit simpler if you just aim for a Mac port and forget Linux, like Adobe do, but I suspect the principle is still the same - you have to start out this way.

[Mario]

When I would write another IMatch, I would write it for the system architectures which will be 'it' in maybe 3 years. And this most likely means 'app/web-based' and running in a 'browser' on the client. And this then covers all platforms, from Linux to Apple to Android to Windows. Maybe I start with an IMatch Companion^TM some day, giving users a sub-set of IMatch features as an app for their smart phone and tablets...

[Jingo]

Older post - but I have this running pretty well in OSx using parallels in coherence mode... while not as good as a native OSx application - it is a stop gap for those that like what Mac's offer.