josh i had the same issue and discovered i needed to install
<a class="postlink" href="https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/core#/current">https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/core#/current</a>
hope that helps
Scratch that, found another thread that led me to installing the correct .NET Core 1.1.0, did not realize that I needed to install that to my machine, assumed everything compiled via the dependencies.
<a class="postlink" href="https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/core#/current">https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/core#/current</a> for anyone that runs into this issue (since I have seen another post that the guy didn't resolve)