diff --git a/binding.gyp b/binding.gyp
index 6fd8b87d..223d1e9c 100755
--- a/binding.gyp
+++ b/binding.gyp
@@ -3,8 +3,7 @@
     'target_name': 'bitcoindjs',
     'include_dirs' : [
       '<!(node -e "require(\'nan\')")',
-      '/usr/include/boost',
-      '/usr/local/include',
+      '<!(./platform/os.sh depends_dir)/include/boost',
       './libbitcoind/src/leveldb/include',
       './libbitcoind/src',
     ],
diff --git a/platform/os.sh b/platform/os.sh
index b6e8afbe..124e74d5 100755
--- a/platform/os.sh
+++ b/platform/os.sh
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ os=
 ext=so
 
 host=`uname -m`-`uname -a | awk '{print tolower($1)}'`
-boost_dir="${root_dir}"/libbitcoind/depends/${host}/lib
-thread="${boost_dir}"/libboost_thread-mt.a
-filesystem="${boost_dir}"/libboost_filesystem-mt.a
+depends_dir="${BITCOIN_DIR}"/depends/${host}
+thread="${depends_dir}"/lib/libboost_thread-mt.a
+filesystem="${depends_dir}"/lib/libboost_filesystem-mt.a
 
 if test -f /etc/centos-release \
   || grep -q 'CentOS' /etc/redhat-release \
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ elif test -f /etc/redhat_release \
 elif uname -a | grep -q '^Darwin'; then
   os=osx
   ext=dylib
-  boost_dir="${root_dir}"/libbitcoind/depends/x86_64-darwin/lib
 elif test -f /etc/SuSE-release; then
   os=suse
 elif test -f /etc/mandrake-release \
@@ -82,8 +81,8 @@ if test -z "$1" -o x"$1" = x'filesystem'; then
   echo -n "${filesystem}"
 fi
 
-if test -z "$1" -o x"$1" = x'boost_dir'; then
-  echo -n "${boost_dir}"
+if test -z "$1" -o x"$1" = x'depends_dir'; then
+  echo -n "${depends_dir}"
 fi
 
 if test -z "$1" -o x"$1" = x'host'; then