diff --git a/3rdparty/ext_poppler/CMakeLists.txt b/3rdparty/ext_poppler/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/3rdparty/ext_poppler/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/3rdparty/ext_poppler/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,10 +1,19 @@
 SET(PREFIX_ext_poppler "${EXTPREFIX}" )
+
+list(APPEND _PopplerPatch_COMMAND
+        ${PATCH_COMMAND} -p1 -i ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/no_tests.diff
+    )
+if(APPLE)
+    list(APPEND _PopplerPatch_COMMAND
+        COMMAND ${PATCH_COMMAND} -p1 -i ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/mac_popplerIconv.patch
+    )
+endif(APPLE)
 ExternalProject_Add( ext_poppler
 	DOWNLOAD_DIR ${EXTERNALS_DOWNLOAD_DIR}
 	URL https://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.62.0.tar.xz
 	URL_MD5 42b801f2defaccb6b6cf1bf783ee1552
 	
-    PATCH_COMMAND ${PATCH_COMMAND} -p1 -i ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/no_tests.diff
+    PATCH_COMMAND ${_PopplerPatch_COMMAND}
 
 	INSTALL_DIR ${PREFIX_ext_poppler}
 	CMAKE_ARGS -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${PREFIX_ext_poppler} -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${GLOBAL_BUILD_TYPE} ${GLOBAL_PROFILE} -DBUILD_GTK_TESTS=OFF -DBUILD_QT5_TESTS=FALSE -DBUILD_CPP_TESTS=FALSE  -DENABLE_UTILS=FALSE -DENABLE_GLIB=FALSE -DENABLE_LIBOPENJPEG=none
diff --git a/3rdparty/ext_poppler/mac_popplerIconv.patch b/3rdparty/ext_poppler/mac_popplerIconv.patch
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/3rdparty/ext_poppler/mac_popplerIconv.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/cmake/modules/FindIconv.cmake b/cmake/modules/FindIconv.cmake
+index 338d17d..5f029b7 100644
+--- a/cmake/modules/FindIconv.cmake
++++ b/cmake/modules/FindIconv.cmake
+@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ ENDIF (ICONV_INCLUDE_DIR AND ICONV_LIBRARIES)
+ 
+ FIND_PATH(ICONV_INCLUDE_DIR iconv.h) 
+  
+-FIND_LIBRARY(ICONV_LIBRARIES NAMES iconv libiconv libiconv-2 c)
++FIND_LIBRARY(ICONV_LIBRARIES NO_DEFAULT_PATH PATHS ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib /usr/lib NAMES iconv libiconv libiconv-2 )
+  
+ IF(ICONV_INCLUDE_DIR AND ICONV_LIBRARIES) 
+    SET(ICONV_FOUND TRUE) 
diff --git a/packaging/macos/osxbuild.sh b/packaging/macos/osxbuild.sh
--- a/packaging/macos/osxbuild.sh
+++ b/packaging/macos/osxbuild.sh
@@ -190,7 +190,10 @@
         ext_gsl \
         ext_vc \
         ext_libraw \
-        ext_giflib
+        ext_giflib \
+        ext_fontconfig \
+        ext_freetype \
+        ext_poppler
 
     # Stop if qmake link was not created
     # this meant qt build fail and further builds will
@@ -280,6 +283,9 @@
         ext_vc \
         ext_libraw \
         ext_giflib \
+        ext_fontconfig \
+        ext_freetype \
+        ext_poppler \
         ext_python \
         ext_sip \
         ext_pyqt \