diff --git a/bsd-user/freebsd/os-syscall.c b/bsd-user/freebsd/os-syscall.c
index de36c4b71c..2224a280ea 100644
--- a/bsd-user/freebsd/os-syscall.c
+++ b/bsd-user/freebsd/os-syscall.c
@@ -17,17 +17,6 @@
  *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  *  along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  */
-
-/*
- * We need the FreeBSD "legacy" definitions. Rust needs the FreeBSD 11 system
- * calls since it doesn't use libc at all, so we have to emulate that despite
- * FreeBSD 11 being EOL'd.
- */
-#define _WANT_FREEBSD11_STAT
-#define _WANT_FREEBSD11_STATFS
-#define _WANT_FREEBSD11_DIRENT
-#define _WANT_KERNEL_ERRNO
-#define _WANT_SEMUN
 #include "qemu/osdep.h"
 #include "qemu/cutils.h"
 #include "qemu/path.h"
diff --git a/include/qemu/osdep.h b/include/qemu/osdep.h
index 21ef8f1699..2cae135280 100644
--- a/include/qemu/osdep.h
+++ b/include/qemu/osdep.h
@@ -88,6 +88,19 @@ QEMU_EXTERN_C int daemon(int, int);
 #define __USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO 1
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * We need the FreeBSD "legacy" definitions. Rust needs the FreeBSD 11 system
+ * calls since it doesn't use libc at all, so we have to emulate that despite
+ * FreeBSD 11 being EOL'd.
+ */
+#ifdef __FreeBSD__
+#define _WANT_FREEBSD11_STAT
+#define _WANT_FREEBSD11_STATFS
+#define _WANT_FREEBSD11_DIRENT
+#define _WANT_KERNEL_ERRNO
+#define _WANT_SEMUN
+#endif
+
 #include <stdarg.h>
 #include <stddef.h>
 #include <stdbool.h>