PowerShell/docs/building/osx.md

Build PowerShell on OS X

This guide supplements the Linux instructions, 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, 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.