Running a .NET Core Console Application on Mac or Windows

Question

I\'ve created a .NET Core console application. I want to build the app so that I can execute it on Windows or MacOS without dotnet core being installed on the machine. So I need

Answer 1

What you need is to create a self-contained application. The link explains how exactly to modify your project.json to do that.

Also note that while a self-contained application does not have a dependency on .Net Core, it may have other dependencies. Specifically on OSX, I believe you will need to install a specific version of openssl from homebrew.