diff --git a/src/regex_traits_defaults.cpp b/src/regex_traits_defaults.cpp
index 0b66c68d..5ac46d2d 100644
--- a/src/regex_traits_defaults.cpp
+++ b/src/regex_traits_defaults.cpp
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ BOOST_REGEX_DECL bool BOOST_REGEX_CALL is_combining_implementation(boost::uint_l
 //
 // these are the POSIX collating names:
 //
-BOOST_REGEX_DECL const char* def_coll_names[] = {
+static const char* def_coll_names[] = {
 "NUL", "SOH", "STX", "ETX", "EOT", "ENQ", "ACK", "alert", "backspace", "tab", "newline", 
 "vertical-tab", "form-feed", "carriage-return", "SO", "SI", "DLE", "DC1", "DC2", "DC3", "DC4", "NAK", 
 "SYN", "ETB", "CAN", "EM", "SUB", "ESC", "IS4", "IS3", "IS2", "IS1", "space", "exclamation-mark", 
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ BOOST_REGEX_DECL const char* def_coll_names[] = {
 // little more - but this will have to do for
 // now:
 
-BOOST_REGEX_DECL const char* def_multi_coll[] = {
+static const char* def_multi_coll[] = {
    "ae",
    "Ae",
    "AE",