To build wrapper for Macintosh: First build the BOINC libraries: cd [path]/mac_build source BuildMacBOINC.sh -lib For more details, see the instructions in that script's comments or at: [path]/mac_build/HowToBuildBOINC_XCode.rtf After building the libraries, run the BuildMacWrapper.sh script in this wrapper directory (which will invoke the makefile Makefile_mac): cd [path]/samples/wrapper/ sh BuildMacWrapper.sh