diff --git a/doc/manual/source/installation-and-configuration.rst b/doc/manual/source/installation-and-configuration.rst
index 256c0d3b90689c90ec8ceeaabea144f613b93686..cc0a4f69e0a18c5c02b2c045c59c894d326927b9 100644
--- a/doc/manual/source/installation-and-configuration.rst
+++ b/doc/manual/source/installation-and-configuration.rst
@@ -97,14 +97,8 @@ Note that several versions of Dynare can coexist (by default in
 ``/Applications/Dynare``), as long as you correctly adjust your path
 settings (see :ref:`words-warning`).
 
-To install Dynare for Octave, first install Homebrew following the
-instructions on their site: `https://brew.sh/
-<https://brew.sh/>`__. Then install Octave, issuing the command ``brew
-install octave`` at the Terminal prompt. You can then install the
-latest stable version of Dynare by typing ``brew install dynare`` at
-the Terminal prompt. You can also pass options to the installation
-command. These options can be viewed by typing ``brew info dynare`` at
-the Terminal prompt.
+Dynare for Octave works with Octave installed via the package located here:
+`https://octave-app.org <https://octave-app.org>`__.
 
 
 For other systems
@@ -209,10 +203,10 @@ command; the packaging does it for you. Under Arch Linux, you need to do::
 
   octave:1> addpath /usr/lib/dynare/matlab
 
-Under macOS, assuming that you have installed Dynare and Octave via
-Homebrew, type::
+Under macOS, assuming you have installed Octave via `https://octave-app.org
+<https://octave-app.org>`__, type::
 
-  octave:1> addpath /usr/local/opt/dynare/lib/dynare/matlab
+  octave:1> addpath /Applications/Dynare/4.x.y/matlab
 
 If you don’t want to type this command every time you run Octave, you
 can put it in a file called ``.octaverc`` in your home directory
diff --git a/macOS/build.sh b/macOS/build.sh
index 5de924a83bc20bdb60d2befe675ea3295e6ea603..625846f967545599b09050efe15267d5e117797f 100755
--- a/macOS/build.sh
+++ b/macOS/build.sh
@@ -152,15 +152,18 @@ cp -L  "$ROOTDIR"/mex/matlab/*                                       "$PKGFILES"
 ## Create mex for Octave
 ##
 cd "$ROOTDIR"/mex/build/octave
-CC=$CC CXX=$CXX ./configure \
+OCTAVE_VERSION=$(grep OCTAVE_VERSION "$ROOTDIR"/macOS/deps/versions.mk | cut -d'=' -f2 | sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//')
+OCTAVE_USR_DIR="/Applications/Octave-$OCTAVE_VERSION.app/Contents/Resources/usr"
+OCTAVE_BIN_DIR="$OCTAVE_USR_DIR/Cellar/octave-octave-app@$OCTAVE_VERSION/$OCTAVE_VERSION/bin"
+PATH="$OCTAVE_BIN_DIR:$PATH" CC=$CC CXX=$CXX ./configure \
   PACKAGE_VERSION="$VERSION" \
   PACKAGE_STRING="dynare $VERSION" \
   CXXFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include \
-  LDFLAGS="-static-libgcc -L/usr/local/lib" \
+  LDFLAGS="-static-libgcc -L$OCTAVE_USR_DIR/lib " \
   --with-gsl="$LIB64"/gsl \
   --with-matio="$LIB64"/matio \
   --with-slicot="$LIB64"/Slicot/with-underscore
-make -j"$NTHREADS"
+PATH="$OCTAVE_BIN_DIR:$PATH" make -j"$NTHREADS"
 cp -L  "$ROOTDIR"/mex/octave/*                                       "$PKGFILES"/mex/octave
 echo -e "function v = supported_octave_version\nv=\"$(octave --eval "disp(OCTAVE_VERSION)")\";\nend" > "$PKGFILES"/matlab/supported_octave_version.m
 
diff --git a/macOS/deps/versions.mk b/macOS/deps/versions.mk
index c3e232fe34baca6372497762adb337250baa1fd1..19f041cf5b8474883f39f03c5723fa075c32408a 100644
--- a/macOS/deps/versions.mk
+++ b/macOS/deps/versions.mk
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 SLICOT_VERSION = 5.0+20101122
 X13AS_VERSION = 1.1_B39
+OCTAVE_VERSION = 4.4.1
diff --git a/mex/build/octave/configure.ac b/mex/build/octave/configure.ac
index 56ebe1eb16a70417c2ef5dac78a5967109fb1532..efb587e3a46ab085eb90d6bcf9317cc7f97070f6 100644
--- a/mex/build/octave/configure.ac
+++ b/mex/build/octave/configure.ac
@@ -32,6 +32,14 @@ FFLAGS="$($MKOCTFILE -p FFLAGS) -Wall"
 CXXFLAGS="$($MKOCTFILE -p CXXFLAGS) -Wall -Wno-parentheses -Wold-style-cast"
 LDFLAGS="$($MKOCTFILE -p LFLAGS) $($MKOCTFILE -p LDFLAGS)"
 
+AC_CANONICAL_HOST
+case ${host_os} in
+  darwin*)
+    CXXFLAGS="$($MKOCTFILE -p ALL_CXXFLAGS) -Wall -Wno-parentheses -Wold-style-cast -O2"
+    LDFLAGS+="$($MKOCTFILE -p OCTAVE_LIBS)"
+    ;;
+esac
+
 OCTAVE_VERSION=$($MKOCTFILE -v 2>&1 | sed 's/mkoctfile, version //')
 AX_COMPARE_VERSION([$OCTAVE_VERSION], [lt], [4.2], [AC_MSG_ERROR([Your Octave is too old, please upgrade to version 4.2 at least (or disable Octave support with --disable-octave).])])