diff --git a/common.pri b/common.pri
index db250bd..acf75e5 100644
--- a/common.pri
+++ b/common.pri
@@ -14,3 +14,11 @@ CHART_BUILD_BUILD_DIR = $$replace(CHART_BUILD_BUILD_DIR, "/","\\")
 CHART_BUILD_BIN_DIR = $$replace(CHART_BUILD_BIN_DIR, "/","\\")
 }
 
+mac: {
+    # TODO: The following qmake flags are a work-around to make QtCommercial Charts compile on
+    # QtCommercial 4.8. On the other hand Charts builds successfully with Qt open source 4.8
+    # without these definitions, so this is probably a configuration issue on QtCommercial 4.8;
+    # it should probably define the minimum OSX version to be 10.5...
+    QMAKE_CXXFLAGS *= -mmacosx-version-min=10.5
+    QMAKE_LFLAGS *= -mmacosx-version-min=10.5
+}