diff --git a/tinygrad/runtime/ops_webgpu.py b/tinygrad/runtime/ops_webgpu.py
index 357680081a..3f83f93ef0 100644
--- a/tinygrad/runtime/ops_webgpu.py
+++ b/tinygrad/runtime/ops_webgpu.py
@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
 import functools, struct
 from tinygrad.device import  Compiled, Allocator, Compiler
 from tinygrad.renderer.wgsl import WGSLRenderer
-from tinygrad.helpers import round_up
+from tinygrad.helpers import round_up, OSX
 from tinygrad.runtime.autogen import webgpu
 from typing import List, Any
 import ctypes
 
-instance = webgpu.wgpuCreateInstance(webgpu.WGPUInstanceDescriptor(features = webgpu.WGPUInstanceFeatures(timedWaitAnyEnable = True)))
+try:
+  instance = webgpu.wgpuCreateInstance(webgpu.WGPUInstanceDescriptor(features = webgpu.WGPUInstanceFeatures(timedWaitAnyEnable = True)))
+except AttributeError:
+  raise RuntimeError("Cannot find dawn library. Install it with: " + ("brew tap wpmed92/dawn && brew install dawn" if OSX else
+  "sudo curl -L https://github.com/wpmed92/pydawn/releases/download/v0.1.6/libwebgpu_dawn.so -o /usr/lib/libwebgpu_dawn.so"))
 
 def to_c_string(_str): return ctypes.create_string_buffer(_str.encode('utf-8'))