Xamarin.Mac and netstandard2
Today is an exciting day in the .NET community as .NET Core 2.0 was released:
However, if you try to use your new shiny netstandard2 libraries with Xamarin.Mac (or iOS) you likely will run into a few issues as official support is scheduled for our next major release d15–4 (XM 3.8 and XI 10.14).
All of them are solvable by installing the correct bits and making a minor tweak to your csproj for now.
First: Install the latest d15–3 release found in the Stable Channel
Second: Install .NET Core 2 (You want the pkg download)
Third: Due to this bug you will need to tweak your Xamarin.Mac (or iOS) csproj until it gets fixed.
Add this line to your reference section:
<Reference Include=”netstandard” />
below
<Reference Include=”Xamarin.Mac” />
(or <Reference Include=”Xamarin.iOS” /> for iOS)
but inside the same ItemGroup.
If, and only if, you are targeting the Xamairn.Mac Full target framework, you will need to additionally add this line:
<TargetFrameworkVersion>v4.6.1</TargetFrameworkVersion>
in the top PropertyGroup (above UseXamMacFullFramework for example).
After those tweaks, things should “just work”.
As I mentioned, full support will land in the next major release, so please file any bugs you come across.
