diff --git a/src/gethdep.go b/src/gethdep.go
index e90b99c31..c67bc4a58 100644
--- a/src/gethdep.go
+++ b/src/gethdep.go
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/accounts"
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/node"
-	"github.com/urfave/cli"
 )
 
 var (
@@ -13,13 +12,13 @@ var (
 	scryptP = 1
 )
 
-func createAccount(c *cli.Context) error {
+func createAccount(password, keydir string) error {
 
 	var sync *[]node.Service
 	w := true
-	accman := accounts.NewManager(c.String("keydir"), scryptN, scryptP, sync)
+	accman := accounts.NewManager(keydir, scryptN, scryptP, sync)
 
-	account, err := accman.NewAccount(c.String("password"), w)
+	account, err := accman.NewAccount(password, w)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
diff --git a/src/library.c b/src/library.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 9a04c9f28..000000000
--- a/src/library.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-#include "_cgo_export.h"
-
-int runCreateAccount(const char* args) {
-	 return doRunCreateAccount((char*)args);
-}
diff --git a/src/library.go b/src/library.go
index e223c68cb..c10eb93fb 100644
--- a/src/library.go
+++ b/src/library.go
@@ -1,26 +1,16 @@
 package main
 
-// #ifdef __cplusplus
-// extern "C" {
-// #endif
-//
-// extern int runCreateAccount(const char*);
-//
-// #ifdef __cplusplus
-// }
-// #endif
 import "C"
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
-	"strings"
 )
 
-//export doRunCreateAccount
-func doRunCreateAccount(args *C.char) C.int {
+//export doCreateAccount
+func doCreateAccount(password, keydir *C.char) C.int {
 	// This is equivalent to creating an account from the command line,
 	// just modified to handle the function arg passing
-	if err := app.Run(strings.Split("statusgo "+C.GoString(args), " ")); err != nil {
+	if err := createAccount(C.GoString(password), C.GoString(keydir)); err != nil {
 		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
 		return -1
 	}