Is it possible to run LINQPad with Mono (Mac)
I have installed Mono 2.6.7 in Snow Leopard and would like to run LINQPad. I've gotten LINQPad (v2.21) to start but immediately get a FileNotFoundException. Has anyone been able to run it successfully?
I assume the exception is because it's trying to read/write a config file or something but hopefully there is some workaround.
Thanks.
Edit: Building Mono with "Olive" (required for WPF):
In Terminal:
svn co svn://anonsvn.mono-project.com/source/trunk/olive
cd /Users/(your user name)/olive
./configure --prefix=/Users/(your user name)/olive --with-glib=embedded
make
make install
Now navigate in Finder to:
/Users/(your user name)/olive/lib/mono/gac
Copy those folders (ex: PresentationCore, PresentationFramework) into:
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/2.6.7/lib/mono/gac (Current Mono version is 2.6.7 but this obviously may be different)
Edit: Unfortunately, now I'm getting this when running LINQPad:
WARNING **: The class System.Windows.Resources.AssemblyAssociatedContentFileAttribute could not be loaded, used in LINQPadcould not be loaded, used in LINQPad
Edit: Xamarin Workbooks recently released 1.0 (https://developer.xamarin.com/workbooks/) and is the closest I've seen to LINQPad on macOS.
Edit (September 2017): This is still speculative!
Running most Windows applications (including GUI apps) might be possible with Docker and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL):
See the blog post at https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/windows-for-linux-nerds/ for a detailed walkthrough.
Answer
LINQPad doesn't work in Mono primarily because it relies on ActiPro's SyntaxEditor which does some Win32 interop. LINQPad itself also does some interop.
An early prototype of LINQPad used a TextBox instead of a syntax editor - this might be what was tested against Mono.