diff --git a/common/OLD_uipriv.h b/common/OLD_uipriv.h
index 02676a16..453871d7 100644
--- a/common/OLD_uipriv.h
+++ b/common/OLD_uipriv.h
@@ -1,17 +1,3 @@
-// 6 april 2015
-
-// this must go outside other extern "C" blocks, otherwise we'll get double-declaration errors
-#include "utf.h"
-
-#ifdef __cplusplus
-extern "C" {
-#endif
-
-#include <stdarg.h>
-#include <string.h>
-#include "controlsigs.h"
-
-extern uiInitOptions options;
 
 extern void *uiAlloc(size_t, const char *);
 #define uiNew(T) ((T *) uiAlloc(sizeof (T), #T))
@@ -60,7 +46,3 @@ extern void fallbackTransformSize(uiDrawMatrix *, double *, double *);
 
 // OS-specific text.* files
 extern int uiprivStricmp(const char *a, const char *b);
-
-#ifdef __cplusplus
-}
-#endif
diff --git a/common/uipriv.h b/common/uipriv.h
index 02676a16..5f0f287d 100644
--- a/common/uipriv.h
+++ b/common/uipriv.h
@@ -1,17 +1,14 @@
 // 6 april 2015
-
-// this must go outside other extern "C" blocks, otherwise we'll get double-declaration errors
+#include <stdarg.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include "controlsigs.h"
 #include "utf.h"
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 extern "C" {
 #endif
 
-#include <stdarg.h>
-#include <string.h>
-#include "controlsigs.h"
-
-extern uiInitOptions options;
+extern uiInitOptions uiprivOptions;
 
 extern void *uiAlloc(size_t, const char *);
 #define uiNew(T) ((T *) uiAlloc(sizeof (T), #T))
diff --git a/darwin/main.m b/darwin/main.m
index 865fb942..1bc6bfc3 100644
--- a/darwin/main.m
+++ b/darwin/main.m
@@ -106,12 +106,12 @@ static BOOL stepsIsRunning;
 
 @end
 
-uiInitOptions options;
+uiInitOptions uiprivOptions;
 
 const char *uiInit(uiInitOptions *o)
 {
 	@autoreleasepool {
-		options = *o;
+		uiprivOptions = *o;
 		app = [[applicationClass sharedApplication] retain];
 		// don't check for a NO return; something (launch services?) causes running from application bundles to always return NO when asking to change activation policy, even if the change is to the same activation policy!
 		// see https://github.com/andlabs/ui/issues/6
diff --git a/unix/main.c b/unix/main.c
index 2998bf31..1d7e7a76 100644
--- a/unix/main.c
+++ b/unix/main.c
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 // 6 april 2015
 #include "uipriv_unix.h"
 
-uiInitOptions options;
+uiInitOptions uiprivOptions;
 
 const char *uiInit(uiInitOptions *o)
 {
 	GError *err = NULL;
 	const char *msg;
 
-	options = *o;
+	uiprivOptions = *o;
 	if (gtk_init_with_args(NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, &err) == FALSE) {
 		msg = g_strdup(err->message);
 		g_error_free(err);
diff --git a/windows/init.cpp b/windows/init.cpp
index cfe63b9a..2c25d3d4 100644
--- a/windows/init.cpp
+++ b/windows/init.cpp
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ static const char *initerr(const char *message, const WCHAR *label, DWORD value)
 #define ieLastErr(msg) initerr("=" msg, L"GetLastError() ==", GetLastError())
 #define ieHRESULT(msg, hr) initerr("=" msg, L"HRESULT", (DWORD) hr)
 
-// LONGTERM make common
-uiInitOptions options;
+// LONGTERM put this declaration in a common file
+uiInitOptions uiprivOptions;
 
 #define wantedICCClasses ( \
 	ICC_STANDARD_CLASSES |	/* user32.dll controls */		\
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ const char *uiInit(uiInitOptions *o)
 	INITCOMMONCONTROLSEX icc;
 	HRESULT hr;
 
-	options = *o;
+	uiprivOptions = *o;
 
 	initAlloc();