diff --git a/src/libs/sqlite/sqlite.qbs b/src/libs/sqlite/sqlite.qbs
index b03ce9b975f..bf3d485beee 100644
--- a/src/libs/sqlite/sqlite.qbs
+++ b/src/libs/sqlite/sqlite.qbs
@@ -3,9 +3,15 @@ import qbs 1.0
 QtcLibrary {
     name: "Sqlite"
 
+    property string exportMacro: qbs.targetOS.contains("windows")
+                                 ? '__declspec(dllexport)'
+                                 : '__attribute__((visibility("default")))'
+    property string importMacro: qbs.targetOS.contains("windows")
+                                 ? '__declspec(dllimport)'
+                                 : exportMacro
+
     cpp.includePaths: base.concat(["../3rdparty/sqlite", "."])
-    cpp.defines: base.concat([
-        "BUILD_SQLITE_LIBRARY",
+    property stringList sharedDefines: [
         "SQLITE_THREADSAFE=2", "SQLITE_ENABLE_FTS5", "SQLITE_ENABLE_UNLOCK_NOTIFY",
         "SQLITE_ENABLE_JSON1", "SQLITE_DEFAULT_FOREIGN_KEYS=1", "SQLITE_TEMP_STORE=2",
         "SQLITE_DEFAULT_WAL_SYNCHRONOUS=1", "SQLITE_MAX_WORKER_THREADS", "SQLITE_DEFAULT_MEMSTATUS=0",
@@ -15,8 +21,10 @@ QtcLibrary {
         "SQLITE_OMIT_LOAD_EXTENSION", "SQLITE_OMIT_UTF16", "SQLITE_DQS=0",
         "SQLITE_ENABLE_STAT4", "HAVE_ISNAN", "HAVE_FDATASYNC", "HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE",
         "SQLITE_DEFAULT_MMAP_SIZE=268435456", "SQLITE_CORE", "SQLITE_ENABLE_SESSION", "SQLITE_ENABLE_PREUPDATE_HOOK",
-        "SQLITE_LIKE_DOESNT_MATCH_BLOBS"
-    ])
+        "SQLITE_LIKE_DOESNT_MATCH_BLOBS",
+    ]
+    cpp.defines: base.concat(sharedDefines).concat(["BUILD_SQLITE_LIBRARY",
+                                                    "SQLITE_API=" + exportMacro])
     cpp.optimization: "fast"
     cpp.dynamicLibraries: base.concat((qbs.targetOS.contains("unix") && !qbs.targetOS.contains("bsd"))
                                       ? ["dl", "pthread"] : [])
@@ -42,7 +50,8 @@ QtcLibrary {
     }
 
     Export {
-        cpp.includePaths: base.concat([
+        cpp.defines: product.sharedDefines.concat("SQLITE_API=" + product.importMacro)
+        cpp.systemIncludePaths: base.concat([
             "../3rdparty/sqlite",
             "."
         ])