diff --git a/modules/rostests/apitests/loadconfig/CMakeLists.txt b/modules/rostests/apitests/loadconfig/CMakeLists.txt
index 8c0860b7c13..d4327e5622d 100644
--- a/modules/rostests/apitests/loadconfig/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/modules/rostests/apitests/loadconfig/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -13,4 +13,10 @@ add_importlibs(loadconfig_apitest msvcrt kernel32 ntdll)
 #add_pch(loadconfig_apitest loadconfig.h SOURCE)
 add_rostests_file(TARGET loadconfig_apitest)
 
+# Tell GCC again that we are really interested in exporting symols (who would have figured that we want to use the .def we specified before?)
+set_target_properties(loadconfig_apitest
+    PROPERTIES
+    ENABLE_EXPORTS TRUE
+    DEFINE_SYMBOL "")
+
 fixup_load_config(loadconfig_apitest)