diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 8c855857..047c015a 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1428,6 +1428,8 @@ dependencies = [
  "lazy_static",
  "libc",
  "log",
+ "maplit",
+ "ncurses",
  "signal-hook",
  "tokio 1.28.2",
  "unicode-segmentation",
@@ -3229,6 +3231,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "socket2 0.4.9",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "ncurses"
+version = "5.101.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5e2c5d34d72657dc4b638a1c25d40aae81e4f1c699062f72f467237920752032"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+ "libc",
+ "pkg-config",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "ndk"
 version = "0.7.0"
diff --git a/external/cursive b/external/cursive
index 31ea07fd..250d35f3 160000
--- a/external/cursive
+++ b/external/cursive
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 31ea07fde2191be2ff8eb7c46c6fc2a1bfd8e311
+Subproject commit 250d35f37f526221539c8d59d7a2056803bf0010
diff --git a/veilid-cli/Cargo-macos.toml b/veilid-cli/Cargo-macos.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index a88b7c65..00000000
--- a/veilid-cli/Cargo-macos.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-[package]
-name = "veilid-cli"
-version = "0.1.0"
-authors = ["John Smith <jsmith@example.com>"]
-edition = "2021"
-build = "build.rs"
-license = "LGPL-2.0-or-later OR MPL-2.0 OR (MIT AND BSD-3-Clause)"
-
-[[bin]]
-name = "veilid-cli"
-path = "src/main.rs"
-
-[features]
-default = [ "rt-tokio" ]
-rt-async-std = [ "async-std", "veilid-core/rt-async-std", "cursive-ncurses/rt-async-std", "cursive-crossterm/rt-async-std" ]
-rt-tokio = [ "tokio", "tokio-util", "veilid-core/rt-tokio", "cursive-ncurses/rt-tokio", "cursive-crossterm/rt-tokio" ]
-
-[dependencies]
-async-std = { version = "^1.9", features = ["unstable", "attributes"], optional = true }
-tokio = { version = "^1", features = ["full"], optional = true }
-tokio-util = { version = "^0", features = ["compat"], optional = true}
-async-tungstenite = { version = "^0.8" }
-cursive-flexi-logger-view = { path = "../external/cursive-flexi-logger-view" }
-cursive_buffered_backend = { path = "../external/cursive_buffered_backend" }
-cursive = { path = "../external/cursive/cursive", default-features = false, features = [ "ncurses-backend", "toml", "ansi" ]}
-# cursive-multiplex = "0.6.0"
-# cursive_tree_view = "0.6.0"
-cursive_table_view = "0.14.0"
-# cursive-tabs = "0.5.0"
-clap = "^3"
-directories = "^4"
-log = "^0"
-futures = "^0"
-serde = "^1"
-serde_derive = "^1"
-parking_lot = "^0"
-cfg-if = "^1"
-capnp = "^0"
-capnp-rpc = "^0"
-config = { version = "^0", features = ["yaml"] }
-bugsalot = { git = "https://github.com/crioux/bugsalot.git" }
-flexi_logger = { version = "^0", features = ["use_chrono_for_offset"] }
-thiserror = "^1"
-crossbeam-channel = "^0"
-hex = "^0"
-veilid-core = { path = "../veilid-core" }
-json = "^0"
-
-
-[dev-dependencies]
-serial_test = "^0"
-
-[build-dependencies]
-capnpc = "^0"
diff --git a/veilid-cli/Cargo.toml b/veilid-cli/Cargo.toml
index db13cee5..f98dd173 100644
--- a/veilid-cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/veilid-cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ path = "src/main.rs"
 
 [features]
 default = [ "rt-tokio" ]
+macos = [ "cursive/ncurses-backend" ]
 rt-async-std = [ "async-std", "veilid-core/rt-async-std", "cursive/rt-async-std" ]
 rt-tokio = [ "tokio", "tokio-util", "veilid-core/rt-tokio", "cursive/rt-tokio" ]
 
diff --git a/veilid-cli/src/ui.rs b/veilid-cli/src/ui.rs
index 5fa5a2dc..48b38db9 100644
--- a/veilid-cli/src/ui.rs
+++ b/veilid-cli/src/ui.rs
@@ -710,9 +710,9 @@ impl UI {
         // Instantiate the cursive runnable
         let runnable = CursiveRunnable::new(
             || -> Result<Box<dyn cursive::backend::Backend>, Box<DumbError>> {
-                #[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+                #[cfg(feature = "macos")]
                 let backend = cursive::backends::curses::n::Backend::init().unwrap();
-                #[cfg(not(target_os = "macos"))]
+                #[cfg(not(feature = "macos"))]
                 let backend = cursive::backends::crossterm::Backend::init().unwrap();
                 let buffered_backend = cursive_buffered_backend::BufferedBackend::new(backend);
                 Ok(Box::new(buffered_backend))