diff --git a/src/nix-eval-jobs.cc b/src/nix-eval-jobs.cc
index e2b204b..ca935af 100644
--- a/src/nix-eval-jobs.cc
+++ b/src/nix-eval-jobs.cc
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #include <sys/wait.h>
 #include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
 #include <errno.h>
+#include <pthread.h>
 #include <signal.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
@@ -24,7 +25,6 @@
 #include <lix/libutil/ref.hh>
 #include <lix/libstore/store-api.hh>
 #include <map>
-#include <thread>
 #include <condition_variable>
 #include <filesystem>
 #include <exception>
@@ -99,6 +99,54 @@ struct Proc {
     ~Proc() {}
 };
 
+// We'd highly prefer using std::thread here; but this won't let us configure the stack
+// size. macOS uses 512KiB size stacks for non-main threads, and musl defaults to 128k.
+// While Nix configures a 64MiB size for the main thread, this doesn't propagate to the
+// threads we launch here. It turns out, running the evaluator under an anemic stack of
+// 0.5MiB has it overflow way too quickly. Hence, we have our own custom Thread struct.
+struct Thread {
+    pthread_t thread;
+
+    Thread(const Thread &) = delete;
+    Thread(Thread &&) noexcept = default;
+
+    Thread(std::function<void(void)> f) {
+        int s;
+        pthread_attr_t attr;
+
+        auto func = std::make_unique<std::function<void(void)>>(std::move(f));
+
+        if ((s = pthread_attr_init(&attr)) != 0) {
+            throw SysError(s, "calling pthread_attr_init");
+        }
+        if ((s = pthread_attr_setstacksize(&attr, 64 * 1024 * 1024)) != 0) {
+            throw SysError(s, "calling pthread_attr_setstacksize");
+        }
+        if ((s = pthread_create(&thread, &attr, Thread::init, func.release())) != 0) {
+            throw SysError(s, "calling pthread_launch");
+        }
+        if ((s = pthread_attr_destroy(&attr)) != 0) {
+            throw SysError(s, "calling pthread_attr_destroy");
+        }
+    }
+
+    void join() {
+        int s;
+        s = pthread_join(thread, nullptr);
+        if (s != 0) {
+            throw SysError(s, "calling pthread_join");
+        }
+    }
+private:
+    static void *init(void *ptr) {
+        std::unique_ptr<std::function<void(void)>> func;
+        func.reset(static_cast<std::function<void(void)> *>(ptr));
+
+        (*func)();
+        return 0;
+    }
+};
+
 struct State {
     std::set<json> todo = json::array({json::array()});
     std::set<json> active;
@@ -332,10 +380,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
         Sync<State> state_;
 
         /* Start a collector thread per worker process. */
-        std::vector<std::thread> threads;
+        std::vector<Thread> threads;
         std::condition_variable wakeup;
         for (size_t i = 0; i < myArgs.nrWorkers; i++) {
-            threads.emplace_back(collector, std::ref(state_), std::ref(wakeup));
+            threads.emplace_back(std::bind(collector, std::ref(state_), std::ref(wakeup)));
         }
 
         for (auto &thread : threads)