Can't debug some applications in Visual Studio for Mac

Question

When creating a new console application (.Net core) in Visual Studio for Mac and I try to debug it, I get an error:

Debugger operation failed

Unable to start debugging. The type initializer for 'Crypto' threw an exception.

This happens after updating the application to the latest stable release of .Net core 1.1.0.

Any ideas why this might happen?

Does the application run on the command line if you use `dotnet run`? — Nate Barbettini, Dec 20 '16 at 15:25
The error indicates that openssl is not installed or linked correctly. The instructions for the install on the Mac have been updated from the original at https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#macos — John Davidson, Dec 20 '16 at 21:54
@JohnDavidson those were the instructions I used to install it. The error is displayed by Visual Studio, not the app. The app runs fine if started. Also, on some apps debugging works, on others it doesn't. I haven't yet been able to tell exactly what the difference is between apps that can be debugged and apps that can't. — linkerro, Dec 22 '16 at 20:39

Set · Answer 1 · 2017-01-03T13:18:07.540

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Try to do the following (found here ):

brew update
brew install openssl
brew link --force openssl

Update: I have faced with the same problem after updating mono via brew. And repeating last steps from Install pre-requisites section helps...

mkdir -p /usr/local/lib
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/

edited Jan 03 '17 at 13:18

answered Dec 23 '16 at 10:25

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Tried it before posting. It solved the problems with the applications not starting, but it didn't fix the problems with Visual Studio. – linkerro Dec 23 '16 at 21:13

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 02 '18 at 10:20

I had this problem in September/October, with Rider everything always worked. I reported this bug on Xamarin bugzilla and immediately somebody contacted me and "we solved" (I let him working on my machine with TeamViewer).