diff --git a/.release-notes/4303.md b/.release-notes/4303.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..33f88cc17e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.release-notes/4303.md
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+## Enable building of libponyc-standalone on MacOS
+
+We now ship a "standalone" version of libponyc for MacOS. libponyc-standalone allows applications to use Pony compiler functionality as a library. The standalone version contains "all dependencies" needed in a single library. On MacOS, sadly "all dependencies" means "all that can be statically linked", so unlike Linux, dynamically linking to C++ standard library is required on MacOS.
+
+An example pony program linking against it would need to look like this:
+
+```pony
+use "lib:ponyc-standalone" if posix or osx
+use "lib:c++" if osx
+
+actor Main
+  new create(env: Env) =>
+    None
+```
diff --git a/src/libponyc/CMakeLists.txt b/src/libponyc/CMakeLists.txt
index 4acc0537fb..fa39833600 100644
--- a/src/libponyc/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/libponyc/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -121,9 +121,22 @@ endif (NOT MSVC)
 # build a standalone version of libponyc.a with all needed dependencies linked statically
 if (MSVC)
     # TODO
-    #file(GLOB_RECURSE LLVM_OBJS "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/../../build/build_libs/llvm/src/llvm/Release/lib/*.lib")
 elseif(${CMAKE_HOST_SYSTEM_NAME} MATCHES "Darwin")
-    # TODO
+    # on macos we dont have no static libc++
+    # so when we want to use this lib
+    # we need to additionally link libc++ and libz (for llvm)
+    file(GLOB_RECURSE LLVM_OBJS "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/../../build/build_libs/llvm/src/llvm//lib/libLLVM*.a")
+    add_custom_target(libponyc-standalone ALL
+        COMMAND libtool -static -o libponyc-standalone.a $<TARGET_FILE:libponyc> ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/../../build/libs/lib/libblake2.a ${LLVM_OBJS}
+        DEPENDS $<TARGET_FILE:libponyc> ${STANDALONE_ARCHIVES}
+    )
+    # copy the generated file after it is built
+    add_custom_command(TARGET libponyc-standalone POST_BUILD
+        COMMAND $<$<CONFIG:Debug>:${CMAKE_COMMAND}> ARGS -E copy libponyc-standalone.a ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/../debug/
+        COMMAND $<$<CONFIG:Release>:${CMAKE_COMMAND}> ARGS -E copy libponyc-standalone.a ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/../release/
+        COMMAND $<$<CONFIG:RelWithDebInfo>:${CMAKE_COMMAND}> ARGS -E copy libponyc-standalone.a ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/../relwithdebinfo/
+        COMMAND $<$<CONFIG:MinSizeRel>:${CMAKE_COMMAND}> ARGS -E copy libponyc-standalone.a ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/../minsizerel/
+    )
 elseif(${CMAKE_HOST_SYSTEM_NAME} MATCHES "BSD")
     # TODO
 elseif(${CMAKE_HOST_SYSTEM_NAME} MATCHES "DragonFly")