diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f8dc742756..d2e2d165dd 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Sun Aug  3 18:03:44 2003  WATANABE Hirofumi  <eban@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* regex.h (re_mbctab): should refer to RUBY_EXPORT.  [ruby-ext:02199]
+
 Sun Aug  3 02:45:06 2003  Koji Arai  <jca02266@nifty.ne.jp>
 
 	* numeric.c (flo_to_s): get rid of buffer overflow.
diff --git a/regex.h b/regex.h
index 8e8234cc1a..88868e2b4c 100644
--- a/regex.h
+++ b/regex.h
@@ -88,13 +88,10 @@
 #define MBCTYPE_SJIS 2
 #define MBCTYPE_UTF8 3
 
-#if defined IMPORT || defined USEIMPORTLIB
-extern __declspec(dllimport)
-#elif defined EXPORT
-extern __declspec(dllexport)
-#else
 extern
-#endif
+#if defined _WIN32 && !defined __GNUC__ && !defined RUBY_EXPORT
+__declspec(dllimport)
+# endif
 const unsigned char *re_mbctab;
 #if defined(__STDC__)
 void re_mbcinit (int);