diff --git a/notes-osx.txt b/notes-osx.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6ae2b03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/notes-osx.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+To compile nodee, you need the libzookeper library.  One way of
+getting that is to install it using the macports ports collection:
+
+
+   tabla:~ rmz2$ sudo port install libzookeeper
+   Password:
+   Warning: port definitions are more than two weeks old, consider using
+   selfupdate
+   --->  Fetching archive for libzookeeper
+   --->  Attempting to fetch libzookeeper-3.3.4_0.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2
+   from http://packages.macports.org/libzookeeper
+   --->  Attempting to fetch
+   libzookeeper-3.3.4_0.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2.rmd160 from
+   http://packages.macports.org/libzookeeper
+   --->  Installing libzookeeper @3.3.4_0
+   --->  Activating libzookeeper @3.3.4_0
+   --->  Cleaning libzookeeper
+   
+This will drop the files in /opt/local/include/zookeeper, so  this
+will have to be included in the search path(s) for the compiler.
diff --git a/src/Makefile b/src/Makefile
index 8b28bd8..7f8ee96 100644
--- a/src/Makefile
+++ b/src/Makefile
@@ -23,6 +23,13 @@ BOOSTLIBS=-lboost_thread -lboost_filesystem -lboost_program_options \
 ZKINCLUDE=-I/usr/include/c-client-src
 endif
 
+
+ifeq ($(shell ./platform.sh), Darwin)
+BOOSTLIBS=-lboost_thread-mt -lboost_filesystem-mt -lboost_program_options-mt -lboost_system-mt \
+		-lzookeeper_mt
+ZKINCLUDE=-I/opt/local/include/zookeeper
+endif
+
 ifeq (${VERSION}, )
 VERSION=$(shell whoami)-SNAPSHOT-$(shell git show --abbrev-commit --pretty=format:%H HEAD | head -1)
 endif
@@ -35,7 +42,7 @@ endif
 	${COMPILER} ${ZKINCLUDE} -DVERSION=\"${VERSION}\" -DDATE=\"${DATE}\" -g -c -o $@ -O0 $<
 
 nodee: ${OBJECTS} nodee.o Makefile
-	${COMPILER} -g -o nodee -pthread ${OBJECTS} nodee.o ${BOOSTLIBS} 
+	${COMPILER} -g -o nodee -L/opt/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib  -pthread ${OBJECTS} nodee.o ${BOOSTLIBS} 
 
 clean:
 	-rm nodee nodeetest dropprivileges *.o