diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 12f03d4..54d1ae5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 ### A Qt-based Graphical User Interface for systemd's journalctl command 
 
 
-## About QJournalctl 
+## About QJournalctl
 systemd provides `journalctl` to display and analyze its journal. Think of
 the journal as a giant log file for the whole system. Different programs
 (like e.g. different software/services on your system, but also the kernel) write their log entries into systemd's
@@ -24,19 +24,19 @@ Maybe you want to checkout the [Changelog](https://github.com/pentix/qjournalctl
 ## QJournalctl for Linux
 
 ### ArchLinux and Manjaro
-QJournalctl is available in the community repository for the **Archlinux** and **Manjaro** Distributions:
+QJournalctl is available in the community repository of **Archlinux** and **Manjaro**:
 
 ```bash
 sudo pacman -S qjournalctl
 ```
 For other distributions, it is at the moment required to build it from sources.
 
-### Build Dependencies
+### General build dependencies
 * Make sure your compiler supports (at least) C++11 (E.g. `g++` ≥ 4.8.1, `clang` ≥ 3.3)
-* QJournalctl relies on Qt5, please ensure to have the Qt5 development libaries (E.g. `qtbase5-dev` for Debian/Ubuntu) installed, when compiling!
+* QJournalctl relies on Qt5, please ensure to have the Qt5 development libaries installed, when compiling! (E.g. `qtbase5-dev` for Debian/Ubuntu; on macOS these come with the `qt` Homebrew tap)
 * To access remote hosts QJournalctl heavily relies on `libssh` ≥ [0.8.7](https://www.libssh.org/files/0.8/)
 
-### Build Dependencies (Old Distros) 
+### How to install build dependencies (on Debian-based distributions) 
 Your distribution's supplied version of `libssh` might be too old for a successful build. You need
 to build and install libssh yourself (< 2 minutes!)
 
@@ -52,11 +52,38 @@ to build and install libssh yourself (< 2 minutes!)
 
 `cd ../..`
 
+### How to build and install QJournalctl
+1. Download the source code and extract it (or use `git clone https://github.com/pentix/qjournalctl.git`)
+2. Run `./autogen.sh`
+3. Run `make -j$(nproc)` to compile qjournalctl
+4. Run `sudo make install`  
 
-### Building QJournalctl
-1. Download the source code and extract it
+
+
+## QJournalctl for macOS
+### Build dependencies
+To handle dependencies of macOS, we're going to use [homebrew](https://brew.sh/).
+`brew install qt libssh`
+As indicated in the caveats:
+
+````
+qt is keg-only, which means it was not symlinked into /usr/local,
+because Qt 5 has CMake issues when linked.
+
+If you need to have qt first in your PATH run:
+  echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/qt/bin:$PATH"' >> /Users/user_name/.bash_profile
+````
+
+before building QJournalctl you'll indeed need to run:
+`export PATH="/usr/local/opt/qt/bin:$PATH"`
+(no need to make it persistent by using .bash_profile)
+
+
+### How to build and install QJournalctl
+1. Download the source code and extract it (or use `git clone https://github.com/pentix/qjournalctl.git`)
 2. Run `./autogen.sh`
 3. Run `make -j$(nproc)` to compile qjournalctl
+4. Run `sudo make install`  
 
 
 ## QJournalctl for Windows
diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index 94655f2..560784a 100755
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -14,5 +14,10 @@ if [ ! -f "$QMAKE_BIN" ]; then
     exit 1
 fi
 
-QT_SELECT=qt5 $QMAKE_BIN qjournalctl.pro -r -spec linux-g++ CONFIG+=release
+QMAKE_SPEC="linux-g++"
+if [ "$(uname -s)" = "Darwin" ]; then
+  QMAKE_SPEC="macx-clang"
+fi
+
+QT_SELECT=qt5 $QMAKE_BIN qjournalctl.pro -r -spec $QMAKE_SPEC CONFIG+=release