diff --git a/lib/hostip.h b/lib/hostip.h
index 6e7519c09..c2191479e 100644
--- a/lib/hostip.h
+++ b/lib/hostip.h
@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@
 #include "setup.h"
 #include "hash.h"
 
+#if (defined(NETWARE) && defined(__NOVELL_LIBC__))
+#undef in_addr_t
+#define in_addr_t uint32_t
+#endif
+
 /*
  * Setup comfortable CURLRES_* defines to use in the host*.c sources.
  */
diff --git a/lib/hostip4.c b/lib/hostip4.c
index a45d10580..cbb00ab2d 100644
--- a/lib/hostip4.c
+++ b/lib/hostip4.c
@@ -64,11 +64,6 @@
 #include <process.h>
 #endif
 
-#if (defined(NETWARE) && defined(__NOVELL_LIBC__))
-#undef in_addr_t
-#define in_addr_t unsigned long
-#endif
-
 #include "urldata.h"
 #include "sendf.h"
 #include "hostip.h"