Can't run console application directly

Steps to reproduce

Install the dotnet SDK, including openssl. Compile a hello world console app with mono. run it with dotnet hello-world.exe

Expected behavior

“Hello World” would be printed or the appropriate error would be printed. It looks like the problem is that my hello world references corlib directly.

Actual behavior

A fatal error was encountered. The library ‘libhostpolicy.dylib’ required to execute the application was not found in ‘xxxx’

Environment data

dotnet --info output: .NET Command Line Tools (1.0.0-preview2-003131)

Product Information: Version: 1.0.0-preview2-003131 Commit SHA-1 hash: 635cf40e58

Runtime Environment: OS Name: Mac OS X OS Version: 10.10 OS Platform: Darwin RID: osx.10.10-x64

[JoseFMP]

+1 still happening over here.

[mellinoe]

From a high-level perspective, it is kind of hard to give specific error messages for scenarios that were never considered, supported, or intended. Flipping this around, mono gives a similar un-helpful message if you try to run a .NET Core app with it:

Unhandled Exception:
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Console, Version=4.0.0.0, ..."

What sort of error message were you expecting in this case?