diff --git a/REQUIRE b/REQUIRE
index a7c2269..597a7cf 100644
--- a/REQUIRE
+++ b/REQUIRE
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 julia 0.6
 BinDeps
-@osx Homebrew
 Compat 0.41.0
diff --git a/deps/build.jl b/deps/build.jl
index e710313..713ba2f 100644
--- a/deps/build.jl
+++ b/deps/build.jl
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ if need_to_build_manually
     # make sure we delete the old deps.jl
     isfile("deps.jl") && read("deps.jl", String) == systemlibs && rm("deps.jl")

-    mbed = library_dependency("libmbedtls", aliases=["libmbedtls", "libmbedtls.2.1.1"])
-    mbed_crypto = library_dependency("libmbedcrypto", aliases=["libmbedcrypto", "libmbedcrypto.2.1.1"], validate=validate_mbed)
-    mbed_x509 = library_dependency("libmbedx509", aliases=["libmbedx509", "libmbedx509.2.1.1"])
+    mbed = library_dependency("libmbedtls", aliases=["libmbedtls", "libmbedtls.so", "libmbedtls.2.1.1"])
+    mbed_crypto = library_dependency("libmbedcrypto", aliases=["libmbedcrypto", "libmbedcrypto.so", "libmbedcrypto.2.1.1"], validate=validate_mbed)
+    mbed_x509 = library_dependency("libmbedx509", aliases=["libmbedx509", "libmbedx509.so", "libmbedx509.2.1.1"])

     mbed_all = [mbed, mbed_crypto, mbed_x509]

@@ -87,11 +87,6 @@ if need_to_build_manually
     end

     if Compat.Sys.isapple()
-        if Pkg.installed("Homebrew") === nothing
-            error("Homebrew package not installed, please run Pkg.add(\"Homebrew\")")
-        end
-        using Homebrew
-        provides(Homebrew.HB, "mbedtls", mbed_all)
     end

     if Compat.Sys.iswindows()