PowerShell/docs/building/osx.md

Build PowerShell on OS X
========================

This guide supplements the [Linux instructions](./linux.md), as
building on OS X is almost identical.

.NET Core (and by transitivity, us) only supports OS X 10.11, per
CoreFX issue #[7731][].

[7731]: https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/7731

Environment
===========

You will want [Homebrew](http://brew.sh/), the missing package manager
for OS X. Once installed, follow the same instructions to download and
install a self-hosted copy of PowerShell on your OS X machine, and use
`Start-PSBootstrap` to install the dependencies.

The `Start-PSBootstrap` function does the following:

- Uses `brew` to install CMake, OpenSSL, and GNU WGet
- Downloads and installs the latest .NET CLI package
- Adds `/usr/local/share/dotnet` to the process path

Please heed that last step. You may want to add the .NET CLI tool
location to your path more permanently by adding it to your shell's
profile.

error: Too many open files
--------------------------

Due to a [bug][809] in NuGet, the `dotnet restore` command will fail
without the limit increased. Run `ulimit -n 2048` to fix this in your
session; add it your shell's profile to fix it permanently.

We cannot do this for you in in the build module due to #[847][].

[809]: https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/809
[847]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/847

error: dotnet restore
-------------------------

If you run `dotnet restore` and get error like

```
PS /Users/vors/dev/PowerShell> dotnet restore                                                                                         
log  : Restoring packages for /Users/vors/dev/PowerShell/src/TypeCatalogGen/project.json...
log  : Restoring packages for /Users/vors/dev/PowerShell/src/TypeCatalogParser/project.json...
log  : Restoring packages for /Users/vors/dev/PowerShell/test/PSReadLine/project.json...
log  : Restoring packages for /Users/vors/dev/PowerShell/test/csharp/project.json...
error: Unable to load the service index for source http://www.myget.org/F/dotnet-core/api/v3/index.json.
error:   The type initializer for 'Crypto' threw an exception.
error:   The type initializer for 'CryptoInitializer' threw an exception.
error:   Unable to load DLL 'System.Security.Cryptography.Native': The specified module could not be found.
error:    (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)

```

Try the following

* Make sure you have latest opensll and re-link it

```
brew update
brew install openssl
brew link --force openssl
```

Build using our module
======================

Instead of installing the Ubuntu package of PowerShell, download the
`pkg` from our GitHub releases page using your browser, complete the
wizard, start a `powershell` session, and use `Start-PSBuild` from the
module.

The output directory will be slightly different because your runtime
identifier is different. PowerShell will be at
`./src/powershell/bin/Linux/netcoreapp1.0/osx.10.11-x64/powershell`,
or `osx.10.10` depending on your operating system version. Note that
configration is still `Linux` because it would be silly to make yet
another separate configuration when it's used soley to work-around a
CLI issue.