diff --git a/include/flite.h b/include/flite.h
index 8814d97..cee88fb 100644
--- a/include/flite.h
+++ b/include/flite.h
@@ -65,11 +65,15 @@ extern "C" {
 #include "cst_units.h"
 #include "cst_tokenstream.h"
 
+#ifdef FLITE_STATIC
+#define GLOBALVARDEF
+#else
 #ifdef WIN32
 /* For Visual Studio 2012 global variable definitions */
 #define GLOBALVARDEF __declspec(dllexport)
 #else
 #define GLOBALVARDEF
+#endif
 #endif
  extern GLOBALVARDEF cst_val *flite_voice_list;
  extern GLOBALVARDEF cst_lang flite_lang_list[20];
diff --git a/src/synth/flite.c b/src/synth/flite.c
index d85fe1a..2eb57f2 100644
--- a/src/synth/flite.c
+++ b/src/synth/flite.c
@@ -44,12 +44,16 @@
 #include "cst_clunits.h"
 #include "cst_cg.h"
 
+#ifdef FLITE_STATIC
+#define GLOBALVARDEF
+#else
 #ifdef WIN32
 /* For Visual Studio 2012 global variable definitions */
 #define GLOBALVARDEF __declspec(dllexport)
 #else
 #define GLOBALVARDEF
 #endif
+#endif
 
 /* This is a global, which isn't ideal, this may change */
 /* It is set when flite_set_voice_list() is called which happens in */