diff --git a/src/util/system.cpp b/src/util/system.cpp
index e034429..0efbfe3 100644
--- a/src/util/system.cpp
+++ b/src/util/system.cpp
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ void system_quick_exit(int status) {
 #ifdef WINDOWS_ENABLED
 	TerminateProcess(GetCurrentProcess(), status);
 #else
-	std::quick_exit(status);
+	std::_Exit(0);
 #endif
 }
 
diff --git a/tools/build/prepare_python.py b/tools/build/prepare_python.py
index b277a18..8108249 100644
--- a/tools/build/prepare_python.py
+++ b/tools/build/prepare_python.py
@@ -59,6 +59,19 @@ def add_platform_config(*args, **kwargs):
 	executable = 'python.exe',
 )
 
+add_platform_config(
+	platform = 'macos',
+	arch = 'universal',
+	source_url = 'https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone/releases/download/'
+		'20231002/cpython-3.12.0+20231002-x86_64-apple-darwin-install_only.tar.gz',
+	so_suffixes = ['.os'],
+	ext_suffixes = ['.os'],
+	so_path = 'lib/libpython3.12.dylib',
+	python_lib_dir = 'lib/python3.12',
+	python_ext_dir = 'lib/python3.12/lib-dynload',
+	executable = 'bin/python3.12',
+)
+
 
 def fetch_python_for_platform(platform: str, arch: str, dest_dir: pathlib.Path):
 	config = platform_configs[(platform, arch)]
@@ -84,7 +97,10 @@ def prepare_for_platform(platform: str, arch: str,
 	dest_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 
 	shutil.copy2(src / config.so_path, dest_dir)
-	subprocess.run(['strip', '-s', str(dest_dir / pathlib.Path(config.so_path).name)], check=True)
+	if platform == 'macos':
+		subprocess.run(['strip', '-x', str(dest_dir / pathlib.Path(config.so_path).name)], check=True)
+	else:
+		subprocess.run(['strip', '-s', str(dest_dir / pathlib.Path(config.so_path).name)], check=True)
 
 	if (src / config.python_ext_dir).exists():
 		dest_ext_dir = dest_dir / 'python3.12' / 'lib-dynload'
diff --git a/tools/build/python_config.py b/tools/build/python_config.py
index 99e8a3a..35d6d89 100644
--- a/tools/build/python_config.py
+++ b/tools/build/python_config.py
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ def normpath(path: str) -> str:
 
 	config_vars.link_libs = _stable_unique([
 			*itertools.chain(*(
-				(v.removeprefix('-l') for v in value.split())
+				(v.removeprefix('-l') for v in value.split() if v.startswith('-l'))
 				for name in ('LIBS', 'SYSLIBS')
 				if (value := sysconfig_vars.get(name))
 			)),