diff --git a/authors.txt b/authors.txt
index 0db0c3d10..88e8ba333 100644
--- a/authors.txt
+++ b/authors.txt
@@ -20,3 +20,4 @@ Mathieu Duponchelle
 Jouni Roivas
 Rafaël Kooi
 Marko Raatikainen
+German Diago Gomez
diff --git a/dependencies.py b/dependencies.py
index b3ca400ca..fc0f2192d 100644
--- a/dependencies.py
+++ b/dependencies.py
@@ -510,7 +510,13 @@ class BoostDependency(Dependency):
             self.lib_modules_mt[modname] = fname
 
     def detect_lib_modules_nix(self):
-        globber = 'libboost_*.so' # FIXME, make platform independent.
+        libsuffix = None
+        if mesonlib.is_osx():
+            libsuffix = 'dylib'
+        else:
+            libsuffix = 'so'
+
+        globber = 'libboost_*.{}'.format(libsuffix)
         if self.boost_root is None:
             libdirs = mesonlib.get_library_dirs()
         else: