How can I install IronAHK on Ubuntu LTS 18.04?

Question

I am trying to install Linux equivalent of Autohotkey on Ubuntu LTS 18.04.

a) I have followed the following guide: Building IronAHK from source on Ubuntu

I have tried these:

sudo apt-get -y install git mono-xbuild libmono-winforms2.0-cil libmono-microsoft-visualbasic8.0-cil mono-vbnc mono-gmcs
git clone https://github.com/polyethene/IronAHK
cd IronAHK
make
sudo make install
sudo chmod +x Deploy/bin/Release/setup.sh
sudo ./Deploy/bin/Release/setup.sh install

After the installation has completed. I have tried to run the program with the following command but I am getting runtime version problem. How can I fix this problem?

q@q-ABRA-A5-V12-1:~/IronAHK$ ironahk [--gui]
WARNING: The runtime version supported by this application is unavailable.
Using default runtime: v4.0.30319
Specified file path not found.

I think that the reason for this problem is mono runtime version.I have installed the last version of the mono like the following:

sudo apt-get -y install git mono-xbuild 

But It doesn't work with the latest stable version of Mono. I have done some research but I cannot find which version of mono required for IronAHK.

Any idea or recommendation appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

IronAHK is not maintained anymore and very old (see https://github.com/Paris/IronAHK). I do not think you will be able to get it to work. May I suggest to try AutoKey (https://github.com/autokey/autokey), which is based on Python but can do a lot of things AHK can do as well as many other stuff.