VS on macOS: Could not find file /bin\roslyn\csc.exe". Path issue

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I'm trying to get the MS Bot builder samples up and running on a mac, using VS Preview. Every time I try to run the application I get an error 500 and: 

Could not find file "/Users/*****/BotBuilder-master/CSharp/Samples/PizzaBot/bin\roslyn\csc.exe".

The CSC is located in the expected location, but the path is obviously wrong. I found this SO post with a similar issue mono on debian: Could not find file "/srv/www/proj/bin\roslyn\csc.exe" But since I'm running the code from VS, I can't just modify the Apache server.

Any suggestions?

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That's why it is still a preview. MSBuild on non-Windows is not yet ready to serve such tasks. – Lex Li
@lexLi I'm aware it's still in preview. According to this question stackoverflow.com/questions/34777551/… it should be possible to get up and running on Debian. I guess it should be possible on mac as well, with some tweaking or working-arounding. That's what this question is about. – EsbenB

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I downloaded the project form https://github.com/Microsoft/BotBuilder/. Then I opened the Microsoft.Bot.Sample.PizzaBot.csproj file and removed lines 168 and 169 (because the looked quite VS for windows paths) 

<Import Project="$(VSToolsPath)\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" Condition="'$(VSToolsPath)' != ''" />
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" Condition="false" />

Then I opened VS For Mac, set PizzaBot as default project and it worked as expected.