I have bought a MacBook lately and wanted to learn how to work with .NET Core. The first thing is installing the .NET Core libraries and tools of course, which is available from:
.NET Core requires OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, but Mac OS X currently defaults to OpenSSL 0.9.8. So we first download the sources for the latest stable OpenSSL release 1.0.2h:
Next unpack the OpenSSL Sources:
tar xzf openssl-1.0.2h.tar
Then compile and install OpenSSL to /usr/local/ssl/macos-x86_64:
./Configure darwin64-x86_64-cc shared enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128 no-ssl2 no-ssl3 no-comp --openssldir=/usr/local/ssl/macos-x86_64
make depend
sudo make install
Next we need to create symbolic links for the OpenSSL binaries and libraries in the /usr/local directory, or the
.NET Core tools won't find them.
sudo ln -s /usr/local/ssl/macos-x86_64/bin/openssl /usr/local/bin/openssl
sudo ln -s /usr/local/ssl/macos-x86_64/lib/libssl.1.0.0.dylib /usr/local/lib/libssl.1.0.0.dylib
sudo ln -s /usr/local/ssl/macos-x86_64/lib/libcrypto.1.0.0.dylib /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.1.0.0.dylib
And that's it.
You can now start with .NET Core.
mkdir DotNetCoreSample
cd DotNetCoreSample
dotnet new