Making Rhino Plugin load on Mac

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Hello everyone,

I would like to have our plugin load (and work) on Mac as well. I followed the instructions on Your First Plugin - Crossplatform , unloaded the original startup project, made a copy with .Mac in its name, added the compilation conditionals from below and got it to build in Visual Studio for Mac.

#if ON_RUNTIME_MAC
            {
                var pluginPath = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.Location);
                var resourcesPath = System.IO.Path.Combine(pluginPath, "Resources");
                var plistPath = System.IO.Path.Combine(resourcesPath, "ToolPalette.plist");
                return base.OnLoad(ref errorMessage);
            }
#endif

I’ve also packaged it as a .macrhi file and tried to install it manually in Rhino 7 Mac. It get a message that the package was installed successfully but the plugin does not apepar in the plugin manager.

I also came accross this thread after which I edited the csproj file according to the specifications there:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration>
    <Platform Condition=" '$(Platform)' == '' ">AnyCPU</Platform>
    <ProductVersion>8.0.30703</ProductVersion>
    <SchemaVersion>2.0</SchemaVersion>
    <ProjectGuid>{B474A6D2-126F-4B52-B13E-B5A250EEA5AF}</ProjectGuid>
    <OutputType>Library</OutputType>
    <AppDesignerFolder>Properties</AppDesignerFolder>
    <RootNamespace>Rhenso.Ape</RootNamespace>
    <AssemblyName>Rhenso.Ape</AssemblyName>
    <TargetFrameworkVersion>v4.8</TargetFrameworkVersion>
    <FileAlignment>512</FileAlignment>
    <IsWebBootstrapper>false</IsWebBootstrapper>
    <TargetExt>.rhp</TargetExt>
    <RhinoMacLauncher>/Applications/Rhino 7.app</RhinoMacLauncher>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|AnyCPU'">
    <DebugSymbols>true</DebugSymbols>
    <DebugType>full</DebugType>
    <Optimize>false</Optimize>
    <OutputPath>bin\Debug\</OutputPath>
    <DefineConstants>TRACE;DEBUG;ON_RUNTIME_MAC</DefineConstants>
    <ErrorReport>prompt</ErrorReport>
    <CodeAnalysisIgnoreBuiltInRules>false</CodeAnalysisIgnoreBuiltInRules>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Release|AnyCPU' ">
    <DebugType>pdbonly</DebugType>
    <Optimize>true</Optimize>
    <OutputPath>..\bin\Release\</OutputPath>
    <DefineConstants>TRACE</DefineConstants>
    <ErrorReport>prompt</ErrorReport>
    <WarningLevel>4</WarningLevel>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup>
    <ApplicationIcon>
    </ApplicationIcon>
  </PropertyGroup>

after doing this, the projects stops building in visual studio and I receive error relating to nuget packages not being able to be restored,

The original csproj file had this;

<Project ToolsVersion="12.0" DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration>
    <Platform Condition=" '$(Platform)' == '' ">AnyCPU</Platform>
    <ProductVersion>8.0.30703</ProductVersion>
    <SchemaVersion>2.0</SchemaVersion>
    <ProjectGuid>{B474A6D2-126F-4B52-B13E-B5A250EEA5AF}</ProjectGuid>
    <OutputType>Library</OutputType>
    <AppDesignerFolder>Properties</AppDesignerFolder>
    <RootNamespace>Rhenso.Ape</RootNamespace>
    <AssemblyName>Rhenso.Ape</AssemblyName>
    <TargetFrameworkVersion>v4.8</TargetFrameworkVersion>
    <FileAlignment>512</FileAlignment>
    <IsWebBootstrapper>false</IsWebBootstrapper>
    <TargetFrameworkProfile />
    <NuGetPackageImportStamp>
    </NuGetPackageImportStamp>
    <RhinoPluginType>rhp</RhinoPluginType>
  </PropertyGroup>

Any suggestions would be of great help,
Radu