I installed .Net Core on a brand new Mac following the (seemingly very simple) i...

romanovcode · on Sept 9, 2016

Okey guys there has been some additions in what you need to do nowadays because of some problem regarding encryption libraries.

What you do on mac is:

    brew update
    brew install openssl
    ln -s /usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/libcrypto.1.0.0.dylib /usr/local/lib/
    ln -s /usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/libssl.1.0.0.dylib /usr/local/lib/

Then download the .net core installer for mac and it will work. Also make sure you download the C# extension in VS Code.