diff --git a/make/bsd/makefiles/gcc.make b/make/bsd/makefiles/gcc.make
index 2cee1b0034ebe2474193828e30eb0fba06db210c..6d25e307bab8313910c374cfeadf2a7586dd081b 100644
--- a/make/bsd/makefiles/gcc.make
+++ b/make/bsd/makefiles/gcc.make
@@ -229,6 +229,20 @@ ifeq ($(USE_PRECOMPILED_HEADER),0)
 CFLAGS += -DDONT_USE_PRECOMPILED_HEADER
 endif
 
+ifeq ($(OS_VENDOR), Darwin)
+  # Setting these parameters makes it an error to link to macosx APIs that are 
+  # newer than the given OS version and makes the linked binaries compatible even
+  # if built on a newer version of the OS.
+  # The expected format is X.Y.Z
+  ifeq ($(MACOSX_VERSION_MIN),)
+    MACOSX_VERSION_MIN=10.7.0
+  endif
+  # The macro takes the version with no dots, ex: 1070
+  CFLAGS += -DMAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED=$(subst .,,$(MACOSX_VERSION_MIN)) \
+            -mmacosx-version-min=$(MACOSX_VERSION_MIN)
+  LDFLAGS += -mmacosx-version-min=$(MACOSX_VERSION_MIN)
+endif
+
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Linker flags