diff --git a/src/qt/bitcoin.cpp b/src/qt/bitcoin.cpp
index 803baf92e..55b5f74c3 100644
--- a/src/qt/bitcoin.cpp
+++ b/src/qt/bitcoin.cpp
@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ static void handleRunawayException(std::exception *e)
 #ifndef BITCOIN_QT_TEST
 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
+// TODO: implement URI support on the Mac.
+#if !defined(MAC_OSX)
     // Do this early as we don't want to bother initializing if we are just calling IPC
     for (int i = 1; i < argc; i++)
     {
@@ -134,6 +136,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
             }
         }
     }
+#endif
 
     // Internal string conversion is all UTF-8
     QTextCodec::setCodecForTr(QTextCodec::codecForName("UTF-8"));
@@ -258,6 +261,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
                 {
                     window.show();
                 }
+// TODO: implement URI support on the Mac.
+#if !defined(MAC_OSX)
 
                 // Place this here as guiref has to be defined if we dont want to lose URIs
                 ipcInit();
@@ -276,7 +281,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
                         }
                     }
                 }
-
+#endif
                 app.exec();
 
                 window.hide();
diff --git a/src/qt/qtipcserver.cpp b/src/qt/qtipcserver.cpp
index a88745685..5ff00451e 100644
--- a/src/qt/qtipcserver.cpp
+++ b/src/qt/qtipcserver.cpp
@@ -20,6 +20,14 @@ using namespace boost::posix_time;
 using namespace boost;
 using namespace std;
 
+#ifdef MAC_OSX
+// URI handling not implemented on OSX yet
+
+void ipcInit() { }
+void ipcShutdown() { }
+
+#else
+
 void ipcShutdown()
 {
     message_queue::remove(BITCOINURI_QUEUE_NAME);
@@ -50,11 +58,6 @@ void ipcThread(void* parg)
 
 void ipcInit()
 {
-#ifdef MAC_OSX
-    // TODO: implement bitcoin: URI handling the Mac Way
-    return;
-#endif
-
     message_queue* mq;
     char strBuf[257];
     size_t nSize;
@@ -86,3 +89,5 @@ void ipcInit()
         delete mq;
     }
 }
+
+#endif