diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/tree-sitter-grammars/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tree-sitter-grammars/default.nix
index a8ea305dc2ae..d87ded63867c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/tree-sitter-grammars/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tree-sitter-grammars/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 {
   lib,
+  stdenv,
   buildPythonPackage,
   pytestCheckHook,
   tree-sitter,
@@ -132,6 +133,10 @@ buildPythonPackage {
     ];
   };
 
+  preConfigure = lib.optionalString stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin ''
+    export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${grammarDrv}"
+  '';
+
   preCheck = ''
     # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/255262
     rm -r ${snakeCaseName}