diff --git a/doc/install/OSX.mdwn b/doc/install/OSX.mdwn
index 68e4a53d9c..e01ed93f23 100644
--- a/doc/install/OSX.mdwn
+++ b/doc/install/OSX.mdwn
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ brew update
 brew install haskell-platform git ossp-uuid md5sha1sum coreutils libgsasl gnutls libidn libgsasl pkg-config libxml2
 brew link libxml2
 cabal update
+mkdir $HOME/bin
 PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
 PATH=$HOME/.cabal/bin:$PATH
 cabal install c2hs --bindir=$HOME/bin