diff --git a/cmdutils.h b/cmdutils.h
index 3fbaae93c2..c4a16aac73 100644
--- a/cmdutils.h
+++ b/cmdutils.h
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 #include "libavformat/avformat.h"
 #include "libswscale/swscale.h"
 
-#ifdef __MINGW32__
+#ifdef _WIN32
 #undef main /* We don't want SDL to override our main() */
 #endif
 
diff --git a/ffplay.c b/ffplay.c
index fabb48c9cf..df7e870119 100644
--- a/ffplay.c
+++ b/ffplay.c
@@ -3635,7 +3635,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
         flags &= ~SDL_INIT_AUDIO;
     if (display_disable)
         SDL_putenv(dummy_videodriver); /* For the event queue, we always need a video driver. */
-#if !defined(__MINGW32__) && !defined(__APPLE__)
+#if !defined(_WIN32) && !defined(__APPLE__)
     flags |= SDL_INIT_EVENTTHREAD; /* Not supported on Windows or Mac OS X */
 #endif
     if (SDL_Init (flags)) {