diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index 93bb2a46..179d517d 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -29,5 +29,6 @@ build_script:
     -DPKG_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE="C:\pkg-config\bin\pkg-config.exe" \
     -DFFTW_INCLUDES=C:\fftw \
     -DFFTW_LIBRARIES=C:\fftw\libfftw3f-3.lib \
+    -D_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE \
     ..
   - msbuild HackRF.sln /logger:"C:\Program Files\AppVeyor\BuildAgent\Appveyor.MSBuildLogger.dll"
diff --git a/host/libhackrf/src/hackrf.c b/host/libhackrf/src/hackrf.c
index 2e30413a..31be1750 100644
--- a/host/libhackrf/src/hackrf.c
+++ b/host/libhackrf/src/hackrf.c
@@ -30,11 +30,6 @@ ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSI
 #ifdef _WIN32
 /* Avoid redefinition of timespec from time.h (included by libusb.h) */
 #define HAVE_STRUCT_TIMESPEC 1
-
-/* Stop MSVC complaining about strdup()
- * Sure, we could fix this another way if strdup() is ever deprecated
- */
-#define _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE
 #endif
 #include <pthread.h>