Is it possible to run LINQPad with Mono (Mac)

Question

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 1

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.