title: Is it possible to run LINQPad with Mono (Mac)
body: <p>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?</p>
  
  <p>I assume the exception is because it's trying to read/write a config file or something but hopefully there is some workaround.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit:
  Building Mono with "Olive" (required for WPF):</strong></p>
  
  <p>In Terminal: </p>
  
  <pre><code>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
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now navigate in Finder to:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>/Users/(your user name)/olive/lib/mono/gac</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Copy those folders (ex: PresentationCore, PresentationFramework) into:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/2.6.7/lib/mono/gac
    (Current Mono version is 2.6.7 but this obviously may be different)</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p><strong>Edit:</strong> Unfortunately, now I'm getting this when running LINQPad:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>WARNING **: The class
    System.Windows.Resources.AssemblyAssociatedContentFileAttribute
    could not be loaded, used in LINQPadcould not be loaded, used in LINQPad</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p><strong>Edit:</strong> Xamarin Workbooks recently released 1.0 (<a href="https://developer.xamarin.com/workbooks/" rel="noreferrer">https://developer.xamarin.com/workbooks/</a>) and is the closest I've seen to LINQPad on macOS.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit (September 2017):</strong>
  <em>This is still speculative!</em></p>
  
  <p>Running most Windows applications (including GUI apps) might be possible with Docker and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL):</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://blog.jessfraz.com/img/cmd-exe.gif" alt="Animated demo of cmd.exe running on Ubuntu"></p>
  
  <p>See the blog post at <a href="https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/windows-for-linux-nerds/" rel="noreferrer">https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/windows-for-linux-nerds/</a> for a detailed walkthrough.</p>