diff --git a/ext/wayland/gstwaylandsink.c b/ext/wayland/gstwaylandsink.c
index 47192df466..fd196b3733 100644
--- a/ext/wayland/gstwaylandsink.c
+++ b/ext/wayland/gstwaylandsink.c
@@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ G_DEFINE_TYPE_WITH_CODE (GstWaylandSink, gst_wayland_sink, GST_TYPE_VIDEO_SINK,
         gst_wayland_sink_videooverlay_init)
     G_IMPLEMENT_INTERFACE (GST_TYPE_WAYLAND_VIDEO,
         gst_wayland_sink_waylandvideo_init));
+GST_ELEMENT_REGISTER_DEFINE (waylandsink, "waylandsink", GST_RANK_MARGINAL,
+    GST_TYPE_WAYLAND_SINK);
 
 /* A tiny GstVideoBufferPool subclass that modify the options to remove
  * VideoAlignment. To support VideoAlignment we would need to pass the padded
@@ -1054,8 +1056,7 @@ plugin_init (GstPlugin * plugin)
 
   gst_wl_shm_allocator_register ();
 
-  return gst_element_register (plugin, "waylandsink", GST_RANK_MARGINAL,
-      GST_TYPE_WAYLAND_SINK);
+  return GST_ELEMENT_REGISTER (waylandsink, plugin);
 }
 
 GST_PLUGIN_DEFINE (GST_VERSION_MAJOR,
diff --git a/ext/wayland/gstwaylandsink.h b/ext/wayland/gstwaylandsink.h
index be92fe7f20..ce79f9ce15 100644
--- a/ext/wayland/gstwaylandsink.h
+++ b/ext/wayland/gstwaylandsink.h
@@ -76,6 +76,8 @@ struct _GstWaylandSinkClass
 
 GType gst_wayland_sink_get_type (void) G_GNUC_CONST;
 
+GST_ELEMENT_REGISTER_DECLARE (waylandsink);
+
 G_END_DECLS
 
 #endif /* __GST_WAYLAND_VIDEO_SINK_H__ */