diff --git a/src/core/kernel/WModuleLoader.cpp b/src/core/kernel/WModuleLoader.cpp
index b40ffa6fd37c1150175a0757c005f68e77e0707c..5dbfb06bb44b49fabe1570794a8d95f2c5e070d6 100644
--- a/src/core/kernel/WModuleLoader.cpp
+++ b/src/core/kernel/WModuleLoader.cpp
@@ -72,10 +72,10 @@ void WModuleLoader::load( WSharedAssociativeContainer< std::set< boost::shared_p
 
         // is it a lib? Use a regular expression to check this
         // NOTE:: the double \\ is needed to escape the escape char
-        #ifdef __linux__
-            static const boost::regex CheckLibMMP( "^.*\\" + WSharedLib::getSystemSuffix() + "\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+$" );
-        #else
+        #ifdef __WIN32__
             static const boost::regex CheckLibMMP( "^.*\\" + WSharedLib::getSystemSuffix() +"$" );
+        #else
+            static const boost::regex CheckLibMMP( "^.*\\" + WSharedLib::getSystemSuffix() + "\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+$" );
         #endif
         boost::smatch matches;