-#if defined(HAVE_DLOPEN)
- #define wxDllOpen(lib) dlopen(lib, RTLD_LAZY)
- #define wxDllGetSymbol(handle, name) dlsym(handle, (char *)name)
- #define wxDllClose dlclose
+#if defined(__WXPM__) || defined(__EMX__)
+# define INCL_DOS
+# include <os2.h>
+# define wxDllOpen(error, lib, handle) DosLoadModule(error, sizeof(error), lib, &handle)
+# define wxDllGetSymbol(handle, modaddr) DosQueryProcAddr(handle, 1L, NULL, (PFN*)modaddr)
+# define wxDllClose(handle) DosFreeModule(handle)
+#elif defined(HAVE_DLOPEN)
+ // note about dlopen() flags: we use RTLD_NOW to have more Windows-like
+ // behaviour (Win won't let you load a library with missing symbols) and
+ // RTLD_GLOBAL because it is needed sometimes and probably doesn't hurt
+ // otherwise. On True64-Unix RTLD_GLOBAL is not allowed and on VMS the
+ // second argument on dlopen is ignored.
+#ifdef __VMS
+# define wxDllOpen(lib) dlopen(lib.fn_str(), 0 )
+#elif defined( __osf__ )
+# define wxDllOpen(lib) dlopen(lib.fn_str(), RTLD_LAZY )
+#else
+# define wxDllOpen(lib) dlopen(lib.fn_str(), RTLD_LAZY | RTLD_GLOBAL)
+#endif
+#define wxDllGetSymbol(handle, name) dlsym(handle, name)
+# define wxDllClose dlclose