diff --git a/include/qemu/osdep.h b/include/qemu/osdep.h
index 59a7f8deca60b24cd5e14a314f792049a145db4e..cc055c909e1bdd0bb3ca9ba3c26f3927794d6aa0 100644
--- a/include/qemu/osdep.h
+++ b/include/qemu/osdep.h
@@ -27,6 +27,17 @@
 
 #include "config-host.h"
 #include "qemu/compiler.h"
+
+/* The following block of code temporarily renames the daemon() function so the
+ * compiler does not see the warning associated with it in stdlib.h on OSX
+ */
+#ifdef __APPLE__
+#define daemon qemu_fake_daemon_function
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#undef daemon
+extern int daemon(int, int);
+#endif
+
 #include <stdarg.h>
 #include <stddef.h>
 #include <stdbool.h>
diff --git a/util/oslib-posix.c b/util/oslib-posix.c
index d844387b79043febd5e464b8c1ac03a28dd385ca..7615be4e7a9fdab889930f32a92c5d6509668417 100644
--- a/util/oslib-posix.c
+++ b/util/oslib-posix.c
@@ -26,15 +26,6 @@
  * THE SOFTWARE.
  */
 
-/* The following block of code temporarily renames the daemon() function so the
-   compiler does not see the warning associated with it in stdlib.h on OSX */
-#ifdef __APPLE__
-#define daemon qemu_fake_daemon_function
-#include <stdlib.h>
-#undef daemon
-extern int daemon(int, int);
-#endif
-
 #if defined(__linux__) && (defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__arm__))
    /* Use 2 MiB alignment so transparent hugepages can be used by KVM.
       Valgrind does not support alignments larger than 1 MiB,