diff --git a/extras/amalgamator/mac/Amalgamator.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj b/extras/amalgamator/mac/Amalgamator.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
index 4f8877b935..4594cf4ace 100755
--- a/extras/amalgamator/mac/Amalgamator.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
+++ b/extras/amalgamator/mac/Amalgamator.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
@@ -195,6 +195,7 @@
 			buildSettings = {
 				ARCHS = "$(ARCHS_STANDARD_32_BIT)";
 				GCC_C_LANGUAGE_STANDARD = c99;
+				GCC_PREPROCESSOR_DEFINITIONS = "NDEBUG=1";
 				GCC_WARN_ABOUT_RETURN_TYPE = YES;
 				GCC_WARN_UNUSED_VARIABLE = YES;
 				PREBINDING = NO;
diff --git a/extras/binarybuilder/juce_LibrarySource.mm b/extras/binarybuilder/juce_LibrarySource.mm
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..96e9e774e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extras/binarybuilder/juce_LibrarySource.mm
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+
+/* 
+    This file includes the entire juce source tree via the amalgamated file.
+
+    You could add the amalgamated file directly to your project, but doing it
+    like this allows you to put your app's config settings in the 
+    juce_AppConfig.h file and have them applied to both the juce headers and 
+    the source code.
+*/
+
+#include "juce_LibrarySource.cpp"