diff --git a/nt/inc/sys/socket.h b/nt/inc/sys/socket.h
index 53326172fbdea196a2923f2ae5add5b932c0c61f..669c2c741a7f47d30496af86391425ff3a509d50 100644
--- a/nt/inc/sys/socket.h
+++ b/nt/inc/sys/socket.h
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
 #ifdef _WINSOCKAPI_
 #undef _WINSOCKAPI_
 #endif
+#ifdef _WINSOCK_H
+#undef _WINSOCK_H
+#endif
 
 /* avoid confusion with our version of select */
 #ifdef select
@@ -22,9 +25,6 @@
 #undef FD_ZERO
 #endif
 
-/* allow us to provide our own version of fd_set */
-#define fd_set ws_fd_set
-
 /* avoid duplicate definition of timeval */
 #ifdef HAVE_TIMEVAL
 #define timeval ws_timeval
@@ -43,7 +43,9 @@
 #undef FD_CLR
 #undef FD_ISSET
 #undef FD_ZERO
-#undef fd_set
+
+/* allow us to provide our own version of fd_set */
+#define fd_set ws_fd_set
 #include "w32.h"
 
 #ifdef HAVE_TIMEVAL