diff --git a/ext/cdparanoia/gstcdparanoiasrc.c b/ext/cdparanoia/gstcdparanoiasrc.c
index 5ea182d2a7..864ebc7302 100644
--- a/ext/cdparanoia/gstcdparanoiasrc.c
+++ b/ext/cdparanoia/gstcdparanoiasrc.c
@@ -529,13 +529,12 @@ plugin_init (GstPlugin * plugin)
   bind_textdomain_codeset (GETTEXT_PACKAGE, "UTF-8");
 #endif
 
-
   return TRUE;
 }
 
-
 GST_PLUGIN_DEFINE (GST_VERSION_MAJOR,
     GST_VERSION_MINOR,
     "cdparanoia",
     "Read audio from CD in paranoid mode",
-    plugin_init, VERSION, "LGPL", GST_PACKAGE_NAME, GST_PACKAGE_ORIGIN)
+    plugin_init, GST_PLUGINS_BASE_VERSION, "LGPL", GST_PACKAGE_NAME,
+    GST_PACKAGE_ORIGIN)
diff --git a/ext/cdparanoia/gstcdparanoiasrc.h b/ext/cdparanoia/gstcdparanoiasrc.h
index 6cec23c4c9..e61dff88bc 100644
--- a/ext/cdparanoia/gstcdparanoiasrc.h
+++ b/ext/cdparanoia/gstcdparanoiasrc.h
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ G_BEGIN_DECLS
 #define size16 gint16
 #define size32 gint32
 
+/* on OSX the cdparanoia headers include IOKit framework headers (in particular
+ * SCSICmds_INQUIRY_Definitions.h) which define a structure that has a member
+ * named VERSION, so we must #undef VERSION here for things to compile on OSX */
+static char GST_PLUGINS_BASE_VERSION[] = VERSION;
+#undef VERSION
+
 #ifdef CDPARANOIA_HEADERS_IN_DIR
   #include <cdda/cdda_interface.h>
   #include <cdda/cdda_paranoia.h>