diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/xrootd/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/xrootd/default.nix
index 93683bc6f7fa..b6fa0bab28d3 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/xrootd/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/xrootd/default.nix
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   outputs = [ "bin" "out" "dev" "man" ];
 
   passthru.tests = lib.optionalAttrs enableTests {
+    test-xrdcp = callPackage ./test-xrdcp.nix {
+      url = "root://eospublic.cern.ch//eos/opendata/alice/2010/LHC10h/000138275/ESD/0000/AliESDs.root";
+      hash = "sha256-tIcs2oi+8u/Qr+P7AAaPTbQT+DEt26gEdc4VNerlEHY=";
+    };
+  } // lib.optionalAttrs stdenv.isLinux {
     test-runner = callPackage ./test-runner.nix { };
   };
 
@@ -47,6 +52,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [
     curl
+    fuse
     libkrb5
     libuuid
     libxcrypt
@@ -56,7 +62,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     zlib
   ]
   ++ lib.optionals stdenv.isLinux [
-    fuse
     systemd
     voms
   ]
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/xrootd/test-xrdcp.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/xrootd/test-xrdcp.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3b29e195813a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/xrootd/test-xrdcp.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+{ lib
+, runCommandLocal
+, buildPlatform
+, xrootd
+, url
+, hash
+}: runCommandLocal (baseNameOf url)
+{
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ xrootd ];
+  outputHashAlgo = null;
+  outputHashMode = "flat";
+  outputHash = hash;
+  inherit url;
+}
+# Set [DY]LD_LIBRARY_PATH to workaround #169677
+# TODO: Remove the library path after #200830 get merged
+''
+  ${lib.optionalString buildPlatform.isDarwin "DY"}LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${lib.makeLibraryPath [ xrootd ]} xrdcp --force "$url" "$out"
+''
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 934369c4a36d..1b0812d00386 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1601,7 +1601,12 @@ with pkgs;
 
   xpaste = callPackage ../tools/text/xpaste { };
 
-  xrootd = callPackage ../tools/networking/xrootd { };
+  xrootd = callPackage ../tools/networking/xrootd {
+    fuse =
+      if hostPlatform.isDarwin then osxfuse
+      else if hostPlatform.isLinux then fuse
+      else null;
+  };
 
   xtrt = callPackage ../tools/archivers/xtrt { };