diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 90e843f..48c2bde 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -183,6 +183,15 @@ version = "0.1.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "28988d872ab76095a6e6ac88d99b54fd267702734fd7ffe610ca27f533ddb95a"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "openssl-src"
+version = "111.25.0+1.1.1t"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3173cd3626c43e3854b1b727422a276e568d9ec5fe8cec197822cf52cfb743d6"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "openssl-sys"
 version = "0.9.63"
@@ -192,6 +201,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "autocfg",
  "cc",
  "libc",
+ "openssl-src",
  "pkg-config",
  "vcpkg",
 ]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c68bcc3..1ed9063 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ authors = ["Matthew Dillon <matthewrdillon@gmail.com>"]
 edition = "2018"
 
 [dependencies]
-git2 = "0.13"
+git2 = { version = "0.13", features = ["vendored-openssl"] }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 shellexpand = "2.1"
 toml = "0.5"
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 990571c..ca112eb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -24,13 +24,3 @@ remotes = [
   { name = "thermokarst", base_addr = "ssh://git@github.com/thermokarst" },
 ]
 ```
-
-## building and testing locally
-
-```bash
-sudo port install libiconv
-sudo mkdir /opt/local/include/iconv
-sudo cp /opt/local/include/iconv.h /opt/local/include/iconv/
-# building
-CFLAGS=-I/opt/local/include/iconv cargo build
-```