diff --git a/build-packages.sh b/build-packages.sh
index 2c735320..f30b1112 100755
--- a/build-packages.sh
+++ b/build-packages.sh
@@ -32,7 +32,11 @@ lite_build () {
   local build="$1"
   build_dir_is_usable "$build" || exit 1
   rm -fr "$build"
-  meson setup --buildtype=release "$build" || exit 1
+  setup_options=()
+  if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "darwin"* ]]; then
+    setup_options+=(-Dbundle=true)
+  fi
+  meson setup "${setup_options[@]}" "$build" || exit 1
   ninja -C "$build" || exit 1
 }
 
diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
index 9621ff64..ce7eca98 100644
--- a/meson_options.txt
+++ b/meson_options.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-option('bundle', type : 'boolean', value : true, description: 'Build a macOS bundle')
+option('bundle', type : 'boolean', value : false, description: 'Build a macOS bundle')
 option('portable', type : 'boolean', value : false, description: 'Portable install')
 option('renderer', type : 'boolean', value : false, description: 'Use SDL renderer')
diff --git a/scripts/run-local b/scripts/run-local
index cef53ab1..8a32e7fa 100755
--- a/scripts/run-local
+++ b/scripts/run-local
@@ -47,10 +47,7 @@ if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "msys"* || "$OSTYPE" == "mingw"* ]]; then
 fi
 
 rundir=".run"
-if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "darwin"* ]]; then
-  bindir="$rundir"
-  datadir="$rundir"
-elif [ "$option_portable" == on ]; then
+if [ "$option_portable" == on ]; then
   bindir="$rundir"
   datadir="$rundir/data"
 else
diff --git a/src/bundle_open.m b/src/bundle_open.m
index 08685d08..2ba10da7 100644
--- a/src/bundle_open.m
+++ b/src/bundle_open.m
@@ -5,25 +5,8 @@
 void set_macos_bundle_resources(lua_State *L)
 { @autoreleasepool
 {
-    /* Use resolved executablePath instead of resourcePath to allow lanching
-       the lite-xl binary via a symlink, like typically done by Homebrew:
-
-    /usr/local/bin/lite-xl -> /Applications/lite-xl.app/Contents/MacOS/lite-xl
-
-       The resourcePath returns /usr/local in this case instead of
-       /Applications/lite-xl.app/Contents/Resources, which makes later
-       access to the resource files fail. Resolving the symlink to the
-       executable and then the relative path to the expected directory
-       Resources is a workaround for starting the application from both
-       the launcher directly and the command line via the symlink.
-     */
-    NSString* executable_path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] executablePath];
-    char resolved_path[PATH_MAX + 16 + 1];
-    realpath([executable_path UTF8String], resolved_path);
-    strcat(resolved_path, "/../../Resources");
-    char resource_path[PATH_MAX + 1];
-    realpath(resolved_path, resource_path);
-    lua_pushstring(L, resource_path);
+    NSString* resource_path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] resourcePath];
+    lua_pushstring(L, [resource_path UTF8String]);
     lua_setglobal(L, "MACOS_RESOURCES");
 }}
 #endif
diff --git a/src/meson.build b/src/meson.build
index 2f3943fb..707e04e9 100644
--- a/src/meson.build
+++ b/src/meson.build
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ executable('lite-xl',
     include_directories: [lite_include, font_renderer_include],
     dependencies: lite_deps,
     c_args: lite_cargs,
+    objc_args: lite_cargs,
     link_with: libfontrenderer,
     link_args: lite_link_args,
     install_dir: lite_bindir,