diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b1cc2cf04..52f4671e3 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ ver 0.19.3 (not yet released)
   - audiofile: fix bit rate calculation
   - ffmpeg: support opus
 * fix distorted audio with soxr resampler
+* fix build failure on Mac OS X with non-Apple compilers
 
 ver 0.19.2 (2014/11/02)
 * input
diff --git a/src/Main.cxx b/src/Main.cxx
index 2719c05e0..26d4e7ae4 100644
--- a/src/Main.cxx
+++ b/src/Main.cxx
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
 #include <ws2tcpip.h>
 #endif
 
-#ifdef __APPLE__
+#ifdef __BLOCKS__
 #include <dispatch/dispatch.h>
 #endif
 
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ int mpd_main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	daemonize_begin(options.daemon);
 #endif
 
-#ifdef __APPLE__
+#ifdef __BLOCKS__
 	/* Runs the OS X native event loop in the main thread, and runs
 	   the rest of mpd_main on a new thread. This lets CoreAudio receive
 	   route change notifications (e.g. plugging or unplugging headphones).