diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 90b6a66908..9bdd02fe29 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -183,7 +183,9 @@ endif (STATIC)
 
 if (NOT DISABLE_HTTP_TWITCH)
 	PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBCURL REQUIRED libcurl)
-	PKG_CHECK_MODULES(SSL REQUIRED openssl)
+	# If you are on OS X, CMake might try using system-provided OpenSSL.
+	# This is too old and will not work.
+	PKG_CHECK_MODULES(SSL REQUIRED openssl>=1.0.0)
 	if (WIN32)
 		# Curl depends on openssl and ws2 in mingw builds, but is not wired up in pkg-config
 		set(WSLIBS ws2_32)
@@ -204,7 +206,7 @@ endif (UNIX)
 
 INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(${SDL2_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${LIBCURL_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${JANSSON_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${SPEEX_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${PNG_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${ZLIB_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${BREAKPAD_INCLUDE_DIR})
 
-LINK_DIRECTORIES(${SDL2_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${JANSSON_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${LIBCURL_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${PNG_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${ZLIB_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${BREAKPAD_LIBRARY_DIR})
+LINK_DIRECTORIES(${SDL2_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${JANSSON_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${LIBCURL_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${PNG_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${ZLIB_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${BREAKPAD_LIBRARY_DIR} ${SSL_LIBRARY_DIRS})
 
 # Disable optimizations for addresses.c for all compilers, to allow optimized
 # builds without need for -fno-omit-frame-pointer