diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index eaa1401f1..c30c218db 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -51,5 +51,9 @@ script:
   - make -j${NPROC} NIMFLAGS="--parallelBuild:${NPROC}" update # to allow a newer Nim version to be detected
   - make -j${NPROC} NIMFLAGS="--parallelBuild:${NPROC}"
   - build/nimbus --help
-  - make -j${NPROC} NIMFLAGS="--parallelBuild:${NPROC}" test test-reproducibility wrappers wrappers-static
-
+  # -static option will not work for osx unless static system libraries are provided
+  - if [ "$TRAVIS_OS_NAME" = "osx" ]; then
+      make -j${NPROC} NIMFLAGS="--parallelBuild:${NPROC}" test test-reproducibility wrappers;
+    else
+      make -j${NPROC} NIMFLAGS="--parallelBuild:${NPROC}" test test-reproducibility wrappers wrappers-static;
+    fi