diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index c81b28d..0e4f604 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ config.h: config.def.h
 	@echo creating $@ from $<
 	@cp $< $@
 
-dunst: ${OBJ}
+dunst: ${OBJ} main.o
 	@echo "${CC} ${CFLAGS} -o $@ ${OBJ} ${LDFLAGS}"
-	@${CC} ${CFLAGS} -o $@ ${OBJ} ${LDFLAGS}
+	@${CC} ${CFLAGS} -o $@ ${OBJ} main.o ${LDFLAGS}
 
 dunstify:
 	@${CC} ${CFLAGS} -o $@ dunstify.c -std=c99 $(shell pkg-config --libs --cflags glib-2.0 libnotify)
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ debug: ${OBJ}
 	@${CC} ${CFLAGS} -O0 -o dunst ${OBJ} ${LDFLAGS}
 
 clean-dunst:
-	rm -f dunst ${OBJ}
+	rm -f dunst ${OBJ} main.o
 	rm -f org.knopwob.dunst.service
 
 clean-dunstify:
diff --git a/main.c b/main.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e31b420
--- /dev/null
+++ b/main.c
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#include "src/dunst.h"
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+        return dunst_main(argc, argv);
+}
+/* vim: set tabstop=8 shiftwidth=8 expandtab textwidth=0: */
diff --git a/src/dunst.c b/src/dunst.c
index a0debc0..11d347b 100644
--- a/src/dunst.c
+++ b/src/dunst.c
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ static void teardown(void)
         x_free();
 }
 
-int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+int dunst_main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
 
         history = g_queue_new();
diff --git a/src/dunst.h b/src/dunst.h
index 805cb50..b2bc025 100644
--- a/src/dunst.h
+++ b/src/dunst.h
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ extern const char *color_strings[3][3];
 gboolean run(void *data);
 void wake_up(void);
 
+int dunst_main(int argc, char *argv[]);
+
 void check_timeouts(void);
 void history_pop(void);
 void history_push(notification *n);