Is System.IO.Ports currently only support on Windows(using MAUI build)

Question

Hello,

I'm trying to develop some application with serial communication function on mac and Windows using MS's .Net MAUI for cross platform development. The same code works windows like open/close a port, send data read data, everything works perfectly. But, on the other hand, on Mac OS, It throws only "System.IO,Ports is currently only supports on Windows" message. A target platform of this project is net6.0-maccatalyst for mac. I succeed on building a console app using net 6.0 with System.IO.Ports and it works well. Only it isn't work with the MAUI build targeted to mac catalyst.

Answer 1

Hello,

Yes, System.IO,Ports is currently only supports on Windows.

And there are some relative issues about this problem, you can check them here: SerialPort is not supported on Mac Catalyst and SerialPort is not supported on Android .

Best Regards,

Jessie Zhang

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