Option 1: Install Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code is a free, open source, cross platform source code editorsupporting a lot of languages.F# is supported by the Ionide project and is a nice integration.
- Install Visual Studio Code for Mac
- Install the latest version of Mono from the Mono project or via Homebrew (see option 5 below).
- Add Mono
/bin
folder to yourPATH
:export PATH=$PATH:/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/bin/
. For more info see: Mono installed on Mac, but not recognized in terminal - Go back to VS Code, press
Cmd+P
and enter the following to install the Ionide package.
Visual Studio for Mac is a fork of MonoDevelop and the current latest version of Visual Studio for Mac is versioned as MonoDevelop 7.x internally in it’s source code. James January 6, 2018 at 9:54 pm. What is even better, is that it keeps it’s format as close as possible to Visual Studio so any project that you start in MonoDevelop can be opened and worked on in Visual Studio. I am a.NET programmer who find’s himself using a Mac from time to time.
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Option 2: Install Visual Studio for Mac
Visual Studio for Mac is a free IDE for general purpose development.
You can create new projects and cross-compile projects built in Visual Studio and other environments.See the Mac, Linux and Cross-Platform Dev Guide togo further. For 64-bit support, see below.
Option 3: Install JetBrains Rider
JetBrains Rider is a cross-platform .NET IDE built using IntelliJ and ReSharper technology. It offers support for .NET and .NET Core applications on all platforms.
- Install JetBrains Rider for Mac.
- Install the latest version of Mono.
- Ensure Mono
/bin
folder is added to yourPATH
:export PATH=$PATH:/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/bin/
. For more info see: Mono installed on Mac, but not recognized in terminal
Option 4: Install the .NET Core CLI
You can use the .NET Core CLI to install F#. To learn more, see Get started with F# with the .NET Core CLI.
Option 5: Install F# via Mono
To use the F# command-line compiler via Mono and tools on Mac OSX:
- Install Mono. Use version 4.2.0 or later.
- Add Mono
/bin
folder to yourPATH
:export PATH=$PATH:/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/bin/
. For more info see: Mono installed on Mac, but not recognized in terminal
See the Mac, Linux and Cross-Platform Dev Guide togo further. For 64-bit support, see below.
Option 5: Install F# with Mono via Homebrew (64-bit)
Mono Tools For Visual Studio
F# is installed as part of the Mono homebrew formula:
You can configure Xamarin Studio to use this 64-bit installation: Preferences > .NET Runtimes > Add >
/usr/local
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Option 6: Install F# (64-bit) from source
To use the F# command-line compiler and tools on Mac OSX in 64-bit mode:
- Get and build a 64-bit installation of the runtime used by F# from source.Set the “–prefix” flag, e.g. “–prefix=/mono64”
git clone https://github.com/mono/mono
cd mono
./autogen.sh --prefix=/mono64 --enable-nls=no
make
sudo make install
- Set the “–prefix” flag, e.g. “–prefix=/mono64”
git clone https://github.com/fsharp/fsharp
cd fsharp
./autogen.sh --prefix=/mono64
make
sudo make install
- When you run mono, use
/mono64/bin/mono
and put/mono64/bin
on your path. Adjust other applications that launch mono to use this location. - Xamarin Studio and MonoDevelop run applications in 32-bit mode by default. You can configure additional runtimes under Preferences > .NET Runtimes to benefit from 64-bit execution.