diff --git a/libs/meson.build b/libs/meson.build
index 3184ec230..13d8a4dde 100644
--- a/libs/meson.build
+++ b/libs/meson.build
@@ -1,66 +1,77 @@
+libfvwm3_sources = files(
+    'BidiJoin.c',
+    'Bindings.c',
+    'ClientMsg.c',
+    'ColorUtils.c',
+    'Colorset.c',
+    'CombineChars.c',
+    'Cursor.c',
+    'Event.c',
+    'FBidi.c',
+    'FEvent.c',
+    'FGettext.c',
+    'FImage.c',
+    'FRender.c',
+    'FRenderInit.c',
+    'FScreen.c',
+    'FShape.c',
+    'FTips.c',
+    'Fft.c',
+    'Ficonv.c',
+    'Flocale.c',
+    'FlocaleCharset.c',
+    'Grab.c',
+    'Graphics.c',
+    'Module.c',
+    'Parse.c',
+    'Picture.c',
+    'PictureBase.c',
+    'PictureGraphics.c',
+    'PictureImageLoader.c',
+    'PictureUtils.c',
+    'Rectangles.c',
+    'Strings.c',
+    'System.c',
+    'Target.c',
+    'WinMagic.c',
+    'XError.c',
+    'XResource.c',
+    'cJSON.c',
+    'charmap.c',
+    'envvar.c',
+    'fio.c',
+    'flist.c',
+    'fqueue.c',
+    'fsm.c',
+    'fvwmlib3.c',
+    'fvwmrect.c',
+    'fvwmsignal.c',
+    'getpwuid.c',
+    'gravity.c',
+    'log.c',
+    'modifiers.c',
+    'safemalloc.c',
+    'setpgrp.c',
+    'strtonum.c',
+    'timeout.c',
+    'wcontext.c',
+    'wild.c',
+)
+
+string_sources = files(
+    'strlcat.c',
+    'strlcpy.c',
+)
+
+# We don't build the string sources on macOS
+# We probably could check for target_system, but nobody is cross-compiling _to_ macOS
+if not (host_machine.system() == 'darwin')
+    libfvwm3_sources += string_sources
+endif
+
 libfvwm3 = static_library(
     'fvwm3',
-    sources: [
-        'BidiJoin.c',
-        'Bindings.c',
-        'ClientMsg.c',
-        'ColorUtils.c',
-        'Colorset.c',
-        'CombineChars.c',
-        'Cursor.c',
-        'Event.c',
-        'FBidi.c',
-        'FEvent.c',
-        'FGettext.c',
-        'FImage.c',
-        'FRender.c',
-        'FRenderInit.c',
-        'FScreen.c',
-        'FShape.c',
-        'FTips.c',
-        'Fft.c',
-        'Ficonv.c',
-        'Flocale.c',
-        'FlocaleCharset.c',
-        'Grab.c',
-        'Graphics.c',
-        'Module.c',
-        'Parse.c',
-        'Picture.c',
-        'PictureBase.c',
-        'PictureGraphics.c',
-        'PictureImageLoader.c',
-        'PictureUtils.c',
-        'Rectangles.c',
-        'Strings.c',
-        'System.c',
-        'Target.c',
-        'WinMagic.c',
-        'XError.c',
-        'XResource.c',
-        'cJSON.c',
-        'charmap.c',
-        'envvar.c',
-        'fio.c',
-        'flist.c',
-        'fqueue.c',
-        'fsm.c',
-        'fvwmlib3.c',
-        'fvwmrect.c',
-        'fvwmsignal.c',
-        'getpwuid.c',
-        'gravity.c',
-        'log.c',
-        'modifiers.c',
-        'safemalloc.c',
-        'setpgrp.c',
-        'strlcat.c',
-        'strlcpy.c',
-        'strtonum.c',
-        'timeout.c',
-        'wcontext.c',
-        'wild.c',
-    ],
+    sources: libfvwm3_sources,
     include_directories: includedirs,
     dependencies: all_found_deps,
     install: false,
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 984eaad31..cab6f6cfb 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ if host_machine.endian() == 'big'
     conf.set('WORDS_BIGENDIAN', true)
 endif
 
+if host_machine.system() == 'darwin'
+    conf.set10('HOST_MACOS', true)
+endif
+
 # Set static configuration.
 conf.set_quoted('VERSION', meson.project_version())
 conf.set_quoted('VERSIONINFO', fvwm_vcs_versioninfo)