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.

Please keep in mind that we do not yet routinely test on OS X, but
some developers use PowerShell on 10.10 and 10.11.

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.

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/Microsoft.PowerShell.CoreConsoleHost/bin/Linux/netstandardapp1.5/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.