diff --git a/pkgs/misc/sndio/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/sndio/default.nix
index 1993b4bcce4..0f09483a857 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/sndio/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/sndio/default.nix
@@ -4,13 +4,19 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "sndio";
   version = "1.6.0";
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
-  buildInputs = [ alsaLib ];
+  buildInputs = stdenv.lib.optionals stdenv.isLinux [ alsaLib ];
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://www.sndio.org/sndio-${version}.tar.gz";
     sha256 = "1havdx3q4mipgddmd2bnygr1yh6y64567m1yqwjapkhsq550dq4r";
   };
 
+  postFixup = stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin ''
+    for file in $out/bin/*; do
+      install_name_tool -change libsndio.7.0.dylib $out/lib/libsndio.dylib $file
+    done
+  '';
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = "http://www.sndio.org";
     description = "Small audio and MIDI framework part of the OpenBSD project";