diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d86d68c..d7bc517 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 *.swp
-*.so
 *.o
 deps/deps.jl
 *.wav
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 0f797a9..04c37c2 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -19,3 +19,9 @@ AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
 LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
 OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
 THE SOFTWARE.
+
+
+suppressor.jl includes code from the Suppressor.jl package, licensed under the
+MIT "Expat" License:
+
+Copyright (c) 2016: Ismael Venegas Castelló.
diff --git a/REQUIRE b/REQUIRE
index 297f03f..3a091fe 100644
--- a/REQUIRE
+++ b/REQUIRE
@@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ julia 0.6-
 BinDeps
 SampledSignals 0.3.0
 RingBuffers 1.0.0
-Suppressor
 @osx Homebrew
 @windows WinRPM
diff --git a/deps/src/Makefile b/deps/src/Makefile
index 160c4bd..7c87b0a 100644
--- a/deps/src/Makefile
+++ b/deps/src/Makefile
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ endif
 # file extensions and platform-specific libs
 ifeq ($(OS), WINNT)
   LIBS +=
-  LDFLAGS += -L../../../RingBuffers/deps/usr/lib -lpa_ringbuffer
+  LDFLAGS += -shared -L../../../RingBuffers/deps/usr/lib -lpa_ringbuffer
   INC +=
   SHACMD = sha256sum
   SHLIB_EXT = dll
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ else ifeq ($(OS), Darwin)
 else
   LIBS +=
   INC +=
-  LDFLAGS += -L../../../RingBuffers/deps/usr/lib -lpa_ringbuffer
+  LDFLAGS += -shared
   SHLIB_EXT = so
   SHACMD = sha256sum
 endif
diff --git a/deps/usr/lib/pa_shim.so b/deps/usr/lib/pa_shim.so
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..228a44d
Binary files /dev/null and b/deps/usr/lib/pa_shim.so differ
diff --git a/src/PortAudio.jl b/src/PortAudio.jl
index 46d3daf..61841e6 100644
--- a/src/PortAudio.jl
+++ b/src/PortAudio.jl
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ module PortAudio
 
 using SampledSignals
 using RingBuffers
-using Suppressor
+#using Suppressor
 
 using Base: AsyncCondition
 
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import Base: read, read!, write, flush
 
 # Get binary dependencies loaded from BinDeps
 include("../deps/deps.jl")
+include("suppressor.jl")
 include("pa_shim.jl")
 include("libportaudio.jl")
 
diff --git a/src/pa_shim.jl b/src/pa_shim.jl
index 040b896..acd81fa 100644
--- a/src/pa_shim.jl
+++ b/src/pa_shim.jl
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
-const libpa_shim = Libdl.find_library(
-        ["pa_shim"],
-        [joinpath(dirname(@__FILE__), "..", "deps", "usr", "lib")])
-
 function init_pa_shim()
+    global const libpa_shim = Libdl.find_library(
+            ["pa_shim"],
+            [joinpath(dirname(@__FILE__), "..", "deps", "usr", "lib")])
     shim_dlib = Libdl.dlopen(libpa_shim)
     # pointer to the shim's process callback
     global const shim_processcb_c = Libdl.dlsym(shim_dlib, :pa_shim_processcb)
diff --git a/src/suppressor.jl b/src/suppressor.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ab297bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/suppressor.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# while waiting for this PR to get merged: https://github.com/Ismael-VC/Suppressor.jl/pull/12
+# we'll just include the relevant code here
+
+macro suppress_err(block)
+    quote
+        if ccall(:jl_generating_output, Cint, ()) == 0
+            ORIGINAL_STDERR = STDERR
+            err_rd, err_wr = redirect_stderr()
+            err_reader = @async readstring(err_rd)
+        end
+
+        value = $(esc(block))
+
+        if ccall(:jl_generating_output, Cint, ()) == 0
+            redirect_stderr(ORIGINAL_STDERR)
+            close(err_wr)
+        end
+        value
+    end
+end
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index 5cade49..f6df19d 100755
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -201,8 +201,7 @@ end
         PortAudio.versioninfo(io)
         result = split(String(take!((io))), "\n")
         # make sure this is the same version I tested with
-        @test startswith(result[1], "PortAudio V19-devel")
-        @test result[2] == "Version: 1899"
+        @test startswith(result[1], "PortAudio V19")
         @test result[3] == "Shim Source Hash: 4ea2a8526b"
     end