Local installation of Magento 2 doest not generate files in the pub/static folder

SOLUTION # 1 (IF YOU WANT TO EDIT XML FILE)

I would like you to download Magento 2 zip from magentocommerce.com/download, create new db in phpmyadmin, extract zip in htdocs folder. Install Magento 2 but do not use localhost use 127.0.0.1 in store URL and admin URL. After successful installation DO NOT run magento.

Now we are going to clear / delete caches and sessions of Magento 2. Go to following paths and delete everything:

ROOT > var > cache > *DELETE ALL*
ROOT > var > page_cache > *DELETE ALL*
ROOT > var > session > *DELETE ALL*

When Magento 2 is not in production mode, it will try to create symlinks for some static resources on local server. We have to change that behavior of Magento 2 by going to edit ROOT > app > etc > di.xml file. Open up di.xml in your favorite code editor, find the virtualType name="developerMaterialization" section. In that section below, you will find an item <item name="view_preprocessed" xsi:type="object"> which needs to be modified. You can modify it by changing the following content:

Magento\Framework\App\View\Asset\MaterializationStrategy\Symlink

To:

Magento\Framework\App\View\Asset\MaterializationStrategy\Copy

Now last step, also delete old files generated in ROOT > pub > static > DELETE ALL EXCEPT .HTACCESS

I personally tried it on my localhost using MAMP, EasyPHP DevServer, Xampp and Wampp and successfully installed and using Magento 2. For further you can check out this link: Magento 2 CSS and JavaScript not loading from correct folder

SOLUTION # 2

Install Composer. Now I would like you to download Magento 2 zip from magentocommerce.com/download, create new db in phpmyadmin, extract zip in htdocs folder. Install Magento 2 but do not use localhost use 127.0.0.1 in store URL and admin URL. After successful installation DO NOT run magento.

Now we are going to verify Composer installation, Deploy static content, clear / flush Magento cache and reindex the Magento 2 blocks. To perform all above actions, press WINDOWS KEY + R to open RUN dialog and type “cmd” to open Command Prompt.

Type “cd PATH_TO_YOUR_MAGENTO2_FILES” to enter in Magento 2 ROOT directory.

Now to verify Composer installation in above directory, type “composer install”.

If you get any error in this step, please check your Composer installation

In this step, we are setting up static content to deploy on our Magento store. To perform this, type “php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy”.

If you get any error, check your PHP.EXE and PHP.INI Environment Variable

Clear / Flush Magento cache by typing “php bin/magento cache:flush” in CMD.

And finally, to Reindex Magento Static Blocks type “php bin/magento indexer:reindex”.

You are done with successful installation of Magento 2.

Try to run below command

php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

And if it gives any error while running this command, like file missing as you already said ,then compare your project file structure with fresh magento2 file structure . If any file missing in your project then copy appropriate file into your project.

And if you got any other error then post error in your question so someone can answer your question.

Looks like intl extension is not loaded in you console version of php. Please verify that you use same version/settings for apache and cli version of php.

MacOsX has preinstalled version of php and some packages that install php do not change symlink for terminal session. As result you can have different version of php installed in same time.

PS: I propose to use vagrant on Mac OS. it is working pretty well if use nfs for file sharing