diff --git a/Makefile.homebrew b/Makefile.homebrew
index 41a89e93..688fdaea 100644
--- a/Makefile.homebrew
+++ b/Makefile.homebrew
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ endif
 # Seems like all recent Mac's have AES-NI, after firmware upgrade 2.2
 # Found no good way to detect it from command line. TODO: Might be some osx sysinfo magic
 ifeq ($(USE_AESNI),yes)
-	CXXFLAGS += -maes -DAESNI
+	CXXFLAGS += -maes
 endif
 ifeq ($(USE_AVX),1)
 	CXXFLAGS += -mavx
diff --git a/Makefile.linux b/Makefile.linux
index bd8d8fd3..b9a740ad 100644
--- a/Makefile.linux
+++ b/Makefile.linux
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ ifneq ($(shell $(GREP) -c aes /proc/cpuinfo),0)
 	ifeq ($(machine), aarch64)
 		CXXFLAGS += -DARM64AES
 	else
-		CPU_FLAGS += -maes -DAESNI
+		CPU_FLAGS += -maes
 	endif
 endif
 endif
diff --git a/Makefile.mingw b/Makefile.mingw
index ac2d0363..5dae3723 100644
--- a/Makefile.mingw
+++ b/Makefile.mingw
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ endif
 
 # don't change following line to ifeq ($(USE_AESNI),yes) !!!
 ifeq ($(USE_AESNI),1)
-	CPU_FLAGS += -maes -DAESNI
+	CPU_FLAGS += -maes
 else
 	CPU_FLAGS += -msse
 endif
diff --git a/Makefile.osx b/Makefile.osx
index 2db88784..3358cb10 100644
--- a/Makefile.osx
+++ b/Makefile.osx
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ ifeq ($(USE_UPNP),yes)
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(USE_AESNI),1)
-	CXXFLAGS += -maes -DAESNI
+	CXXFLAGS += -maes
 else
 	CXXFLAGS += -msse
 endif