diff --git a/source/dub/compilers/ldc.d b/source/dub/compilers/ldc.d
index 8487609..076ab1d 100644
--- a/source/dub/compilers/ldc.d
+++ b/source/dub/compilers/ldc.d
@@ -150,8 +150,19 @@
 			settings.lflags = null;
 		}
 
-		if (settings.options & BuildOption.pic)
-			settings.addDFlags("-relocation-model=pic");
+		if (settings.options & BuildOption.pic) {
+			if (platform.isWindows()) {
+				/* This has nothing to do with PIC, but as the PIC option is exclusively
+				 * set internally for code that ends up in a dynamic library, explicitly
+				 * specify what `-shared` defaults to (`-shared` can't be used when
+				 * compiling only, without linking).
+				 * *Pre*pending the flags enables the user to override them.
+				 */
+				settings.prependDFlags("-fvisibility=public", "-dllimport=all");
+			} else {
+				settings.addDFlags("-relocation-model=pic");
+			}
+		}
 
 		assert(fields & BuildSetting.dflags);
 		assert(fields & BuildSetting.copyFiles);
diff --git a/test/1-dynLib-simple/dub.json b/test/1-dynLib-simple/dub.json
index 03aa6d8..c7747c3 100644
--- a/test/1-dynLib-simple/dub.json
+++ b/test/1-dynLib-simple/dub.json
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 {
     "name": "dynlib-simple",
-    "targetType": "dynamicLibrary",
-    "dflags-ldc": ["-link-defaultlib-shared", "--fvisibility=public"]
+    "targetType": "dynamicLibrary"
 }
diff --git a/test/2-dynLib-with-staticLib-dep/.no_build_ldc2 b/test/2-dynLib-with-staticLib-dep/.no_build_ldc2
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000
--- a/test/2-dynLib-with-staticLib-dep/.no_build_ldc2
+++ /dev/null