diff --git a/src/spek-platform.c b/src/spek-platform.c
index 945ab30..7511a53 100644
--- a/src/spek-platform.c
+++ b/src/spek-platform.c
@@ -25,12 +25,19 @@
 #endif
 
 #ifdef G_OS_DARWIN
+#include <gtkosxapplication.h>
 #include <CoreFoundation/CoreFoundation.h>
 #include <ApplicationServices/ApplicationServices.h>
 #endif
 
 #include "spek-platform.h"
 
+void spek_platform_init () {
+#ifdef G_OS_DARWIN
+	GtkOSXApplication *app = g_object_new (GTK_TYPE_OSX_APPLICATION, NULL);
+#endif
+}
+
 void spek_platform_fix_args (gchar **argv, gint argc) {
 #ifdef G_OS_WIN32
 	/* Because MinGW does not support Unicode arguments we are going to
diff --git a/src/spek-platform.h b/src/spek-platform.h
index 2f6c314..6d87f3b 100644
--- a/src/spek-platform.h
+++ b/src/spek-platform.h
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@
 
 #include <glib.h>
 
+/* Platform-specific initialisation */
+void spek_platform_init ();
+
 /* Convert from UTF-16 to UTF-8 when running on Windows */
 void spek_platform_fix_args (gchar **argv, gint argc);
 
diff --git a/src/spek.vala b/src/spek.vala
index 0ce41e7..6a92e06 100644
--- a/src/spek.vala
+++ b/src/spek.vala
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ namespace Spek {
 			return 1;
 		}
 
+		Platform.init ();
 		Audio.init ();
 		var file_name = files == null ? null : files[0];
 		if (file_name != null && file_name.has_prefix ("file://")) {
diff --git a/vapi/spek-platform.vapi b/vapi/spek-platform.vapi
index 2cd1780..849875e 100644
--- a/vapi/spek-platform.vapi
+++ b/vapi/spek-platform.vapi
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 [CCode (cprefix = "SpekPlatform", lower_case_cprefix = "spek_platform_", cheader_filename = "spek-platform.h")]
 namespace Spek.Platform {
+	public static void init ();
 	public static void fix_args (string[] args);
 	public static void show_uri (string uri);
 	public static string read_line (string uri);