diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e08bf5bbd..9d1b3ba49 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ DFHack Future
     Internals
         plugins will not be loaded if globals they specify as required are not located (should prevent some crashes)
     Fixes
+        Fixed numerous (mostly Lua-related) crashes on OS X by including a more up-to-date libstdc++
         advfort works again
         devel/export-dt-ini: Updated for 0.40.20+
         digfort: now checks file type and existence
diff --git a/library/CMakeLists.txt b/library/CMakeLists.txt
index e0ad3606b..e4de8bafc 100644
--- a/library/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/library/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -306,6 +306,12 @@ IF(UNIX)
                 DESTINATION .)
         install(PROGRAMS ${dfhack_SOURCE_DIR}/package/darwin/dfhack-run
                 DESTINATION .)
+        OPTION(INSTALL_NEW_LIBSTDCXX "Install a version of libstdc++ from GCC 4.5.4 to fix various crashes" ON)
+        IF(INSTALL_NEW_LIBSTDCXX)
+            execute_process(COMMAND bunzip2 --keep --force ${dfhack_SOURCE_DIR}/package/darwin/libstdc++.6.dylib.bz2)
+            install(PROGRAMS ${dfhack_SOURCE_DIR}/package/darwin/libstdc++.6.dylib
+                DESTINATION ./hack/)
+        ENDIF(INSTALL_NEW_LIBSTDCXX)
     else()
         # On linux, copy our version of the df launch script which sets LD_PRELOAD
         install(PROGRAMS ${dfhack_SOURCE_DIR}/package/linux/dfhack
diff --git a/package/darwin/.gitignore b/package/darwin/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3ffea3207
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/darwin/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libstdc++.6.dylib
diff --git a/package/darwin/libstdc++.6.dylib.bz2 b/package/darwin/libstdc++.6.dylib.bz2
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6ff995c63
Binary files /dev/null and b/package/darwin/libstdc++.6.dylib.bz2 differ