Patched libao source for OSX can be found here: https://github.com/timonwong/libao/tree/goldendict You can checkout the source directly using git: git clone -b goldendict https://github.com/timonwong/libao.git Then, copy libao-build.sh (along with this file) to libao source directory, and build using following commands: chmod +x libao-build.sh ./libao-build.sh [goldendict source directory]