diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8bc7e94..aed44c0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -167,12 +167,10 @@ For example, [monero-java](https://github.com/monero-ecosystem/monero-java) comp
 		2. `cd ./external/boost-sdk/`
 		3. `./bootstrap.sh`
 		4. `./b2`
-		5. Copy .a files from ./external/boost-sdk/bin.v2/libs/\*/link-static/\* to ./external-libs/boost according to CMakeLists.txt.
 	2. Set up OpenSSL
 		1. Download and extract the OpenSSL 1.1.1 source code zip from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/tree/OpenSSL_1_1_1 to ./external/openssl-sdk/.
 		2. Build for your system.<br>
        Unix: `./config && make`
-		3. Copy libcrypto.a and libssl.a to ./external-libs/openssl<br>
 	3. Set up hidapi
 		1. Download the latest hidapi source code from https://github.com/signal11/hidapi.
 		2. Build hidapi for your system.<br>
diff --git a/bin/build_libmonero_cpp.sh b/bin/build_libmonero_cpp.sh
index be622c6..69ee09f 100755
--- a/bin/build_libmonero_cpp.sh
+++ b/bin/build_libmonero_cpp.sh
@@ -1,11 +1,30 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 # build monero-core dependencies
+HOST_NCORES=$(nproc 2>/dev/null || shell nproc 2>/dev/null || sysctl -n hw.ncpu 2>/dev/null || echo 1)
 cd ./external/monero-core/ && 
-make release-static -j8 &&
+make release-static -j$HOST_NCORES &&
+cd ../../
+
+# copy boost .a files to ./external-libs/boost
+mkdir -p ./external-libs || exit 1
+mkdir -p ./external-libs/boost || exit 1
+cp ./external/boost-sdk/bin.v2/libs/chrono/build/clang-darwin-11.0/release/link-static/threading-multi/visibility-hidden/libboost_chrono.a ./external-libs/boost || exit 1
+cp ./external/boost-sdk/bin.v2/libs/date_time/build/clang-darwin-11.0/release/link-static/threading-multi/visibility-hidden/libboost_date_time.a ./external-libs/boost || exit 1
+cp ./external/boost-sdk/bin.v2/libs/filesystem/build/clang-darwin-11.0/release/link-static/threading-multi/visibility-hidden/libboost_filesystem.a ./external-libs/boost || exit 1
+cp ./external/boost-sdk/bin.v2/libs/program_options/build/clang-darwin-11.0/release/link-static/threading-multi/visibility-hidden/libboost_program_options.a ./external-libs/boost || exit 1
+cp ./external/boost-sdk/bin.v2/libs/regex/build/clang-darwin-11.0/release/link-static/threading-multi/visibility-hidden/libboost_regex.a  ./external-libs/boost || exit 1
+cp ./external/boost-sdk/bin.v2/libs/serialization/build/clang-darwin-11.0/release/link-static/threading-multi/visibility-hidden/libboost_serialization.a ./external-libs/boost || exit 1
+cp ./external/boost-sdk/bin.v2/libs/serialization/build/clang-darwin-11.0/release/link-static/threading-multi/visibility-hidden/libboost_wserialization.a ./external-libs/boost || exit 1
+cp ./external/boost-sdk/bin.v2/libs/system/build/clang-darwin-11.0/release/link-static/threading-multi/visibility-hidden/libboost_system.a ./external-libs/boost || exit 1
+cp ./external/boost-sdk/bin.v2/libs/thread/build/clang-darwin-11.0/release/link-static/threadapi-pthread/threading-multi/visibility-hidden/libboost_thread.a ./external-libs/boost || exit 1
+
+# copy openssl .a files to ./external-libs/boost
+mkdir -p ./external-libs/openssl || exit 1
+cp ./external/openssl-sdk/libcrypto.a ./external-libs/openssl || exit 1
+cp ./external/openssl-sdk/libssl.a ./external-libs/openssl || exit 1
 
 # build libmonero-cpp shared library
-cd ../../ &&
 mkdir -p build && 
 cd build && 
 cmake .. &&