diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 34a839ddb81..24449d69943 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -3906,10 +3906,7 @@ case $_host_os in
 	;;
 
 	darwin*)
-		# TODO: Check actual requirements for static FluidSynth and
-		# dependencies linking. This is currently based on iOS dependencies
-		# which might be different due to less features enabled for iOS.
-		FLUIDSYNTH_STATIC_LIBS="$FLUIDSYNTH_LIBS -framework Foundation -framework CoreMIDI -lglib-2.0 -lintl -liconv"
+		FLUIDSYNTH_STATIC_LIBS="$FLUIDSYNTH_LIBS -framework Foundation -framework CoreMIDI -framework CoreAudio -lglib-2.0 -lintl -liconv -lreadline"
 	;;
 
 	iphone)
@@ -3932,6 +3929,7 @@ EOF
 		FLUIDSYNTH_LIBS="$FLUIDSYNTH_STATIC_LIBS"
 		cc_check_no_clean $FLUIDSYNTH_CFLAGS $FLUIDSYNTH_LIBS && _fluidsynth=yes
 	fi
+	cc_check_clean
 fi
 if test "$_fluidsynth" = yes; then
 	append_var LIBS "$FLUIDSYNTH_LIBS"
diff --git a/ports.mk b/ports.mk
index df0f3cfa413..2640a27228e 100644
--- a/ports.mk
+++ b/ports.mk
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ endif
 
 ifdef USE_FLUIDSYNTH
 OSX_STATIC_LIBS += \
-                -liconv -framework CoreMIDI \
+                -liconv -lreadline -framework CoreMIDI -framework CoreAudio\
                 $(STATICLIBPATH)/lib/libfluidsynth.a \
                 $(STATICLIBPATH)/lib/libglib-2.0.a \
                 $(STATICLIBPATH)/lib/libintl.a