diff --git a/src/helper/Makefile.am b/src/helper/Makefile.am
index 2165fad95..9d9a79c5c 100644
--- a/src/helper/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/helper/Makefile.am
@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ noinst_LIBRARIES = libhelper.a
 if ECOSBOARD
 CONFIGFILES = 
 else
-CONFIGFILES = options.c jim.c
+CONFIGFILES = options.c jim.c jim-eventloop.c 
 endif
 
 libhelper_a_SOURCES = binarybuffer.c $(CONFIGFILES) configuration.c log.c command.c time_support.c \
-	replacements.c fileio.c jim-eventloop.c startup_tcl.c
+	replacements.c fileio.c startup_tcl.c
 
 noinst_HEADERS = binarybuffer.h configuration.h types.h log.h command.h \
 	time_support.h replacements.h fileio.h jim.h
diff --git a/src/helper/command.c b/src/helper/command.c
index 811328dc9..7dc62dd55 100644
--- a/src/helper/command.c
+++ b/src/helper/command.c
@@ -655,8 +655,9 @@ command_context_t* command_init()
 	
 	add_default_dirs();
 
+#ifdef JIM_EMBEDDED
 	Jim_EventLoopOnLoad(interp);
-
+#endif
 	if (Jim_Eval(interp, startup_tcl)==JIM_ERR)
 	{
 		LOG_ERROR("Failed to run startup.tcl (embedded into OpenOCD compile time)");
@@ -710,6 +711,7 @@ int handle_fast_command(struct command_context_s *cmd_ctx, char *cmd, char **arg
 
 void process_jim_events() 
 {
+#ifdef JIM_EMBEDDED
 	static int recursion = 0;
 
 	if (!recursion) 
@@ -718,6 +720,7 @@ void process_jim_events()
 		Jim_ProcessEvents (interp, JIM_ALL_EVENTS|JIM_DONT_WAIT);
 		recursion--;
 	}
+#endif
 }
 
 void register_jim(struct command_context_s *cmd_ctx, const char *name, int (*cmd)(Jim_Interp *interp, int argc, Jim_Obj *const *argv), const char *help)
diff --git a/src/helper/jim-eventloop.c b/src/helper/jim-eventloop.c
index 73bc29b44..1e0f4774b 100644
--- a/src/helper/jim-eventloop.c
+++ b/src/helper/jim-eventloop.c
@@ -242,6 +242,12 @@ static Jim_TimeEvent *JimSearchNearestTimer(Jim_EventLoop *eventLoop)
     return nearest;
 }
 
+/* --- POSIX version of Jim_ProcessEvents, for now the only available --- */
+#define JIM_FILE_EVENTS 1
+#define JIM_TIME_EVENTS 2
+#define JIM_ALL_EVENTS (JIM_FILE_EVENTS|JIM_TIME_EVENTS)
+#define JIM_DONT_WAIT 4
+
 /* Process every pending time event, then every pending file event
  * (that may be registered by time event callbacks just processed).
  * Without special flags the function sleeps until some file event