Is it possible to run LINQPad with Mono (Mac)
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.
I also wanted to get LINQpad running under OSX and have found after using the above linked 0.92 version from Joe that it does not seem possible.
Although the app starts up under mono and displays the familiar LINQPad screen if you try and run any query it simply crashes and disappears.
Reason being is that there seems to be some use of a WebBrowser control in that LINQPad version and according to the errors displayed in the terminal window it would appear that libgluezilla is required. From doing some digging about libgluezilla I've seen a few replies from Mono devs that it isn't and won't be available for mac, which is a shame.
Error for reference:
mono linqpad.exelibgluezilla not found. To have webbrowser support, you need libgluezilla installed
LinqPad is probably the one thing I miss from moving entirely to Mac for development and I'm not going to run a VM just to access it. As mentioned above, Xamarin Workbooks is actually a pretty decent replacement for macOS.
