diff --git a/src/common/Makefile b/src/common/Makefile
index 5a3d9fef2..b50e20107 100644
--- a/src/common/Makefile
+++ b/src/common/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
-all:
-	python setup.py build_ext -i
+# Set the C flags to include the GTK+ and Python libraries
+PYTHONVER = `python -V 2>&1 | awk '{print $$2}' | cut -f1,2 -d.`
+CFLAGS = `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 pygtk-2.0` -fpic -I/usr/include/python$(PYTHONVER) -I.
+LDFLAGS = `pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0 pygtk-2.0`
+
+all: idle.so
+
+idle.so:
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -shared idle.c $^ -o $@
 
 clean:
 	rm -f *.so
diff --git a/src/common/setup.py b/src/common/setup.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 11a665972..000000000
--- a/src/common/setup.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-##      common/setup.py
-##
-## Gajim Team:
-##      - Yann Le Boulanger <asterix@lagaule.org>
-##      - Vincent Hanquez <tab@snarc.org>
-##
-##      Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Gajim Team
-##
-## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
-## by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 only.
-##
-## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-## GNU General Public License for more details.
-##
-
-from distutils.core import setup, Extension
-import os
-
-if os.name == 'posix':
-	module1 = Extension( 'idle',
-		sources = ['idle.c'],
-#               extra_compile_args = ['-W'],
-                libraries = ['gtk-x11-2.0','gdk-x11-2.0','glib-2.0','X11','Xext','Xss','atk-1.0'],
-                library_dirs = ['/usr/X11R6/lib'],
-                include_dirs = ['/usr/include/gtk-2.0', '/usr/include/glib-2.0','/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include','/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include','/usr/include/pango-1.0','/usr/include/atk-1.0']
-	)
-elif os.name == 'nt':
-	module1 = Extension( 'idle',
-		sources = ['idle.c'],
-#               extra_compile_args = ['-W'],
-	)
-
-setup (name = 'idle', version = '1.0', description = 'interface to X11/scrnserver.h', ext_modules = [module1])