.NET development on M1 Mac

The nightly build of .NET 6 is now available which supports the M1 Mac.

Pre-requisites:

• Visual Studio Code Insider’s Edition (supports M1 mac) — choose ARM64

1. Download the .net nightly build for macOS arm64

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2. Double-click on the installer and you will be warned that it is not trusted.

3. Open up System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> General

Choose ‘Open Anyway’

4. Choose Open Anyway

5. macOS makes sure that you really want to open it

Are you really sure?

6. Ready to install

Installer for .net SDK 6.0

7. Click continue and install — provide password / touch ID to install

Installation failure!

8. Seems like there may be some known issues here

(2021–01–22 Update: these installation issues are resolved!)

• https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/43313#issuecomment-751379285
• https://github.com/dotnet/installer/issues/9267

The installer is not ready quite yet :)

9. Going to try to figure out where to put the .tar.gz files next!

I will edit the post with more details on how that goes.

2021–01–16 — Added a story with the manual setup instructions