diff --git a/src/Compilers/Core/Portable/PEWriter/PdbWriter.cs b/src/Compilers/Core/Portable/PEWriter/PdbWriter.cs
index 3339dc88801ff8098c8a6c67ee902bfab4ac03e0..a89635a460ea3869f7d7f79e2ff24993223d4ab0 100644
--- a/src/Compilers/Core/Portable/PEWriter/PdbWriter.cs
+++ b/src/Compilers/Core/Portable/PEWriter/PdbWriter.cs
@@ -55,8 +55,15 @@ internal sealed class PdbWriter : IDisposable
         private uint[] _sequencePointEndLines;
         private uint[] _sequencePointEndColumns;
 
-        [DllImport("shlwapi.dll", ExactSpelling = true, CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)]
-        private extern static IStream SHCreateMemStream([In] IntPtr pInit, [In] uint cbInit);
+        [DllImport("Ole32", ExactSpelling = true)]
+        private static extern int CreateStreamOnHGlobal(IntPtr hGlobal, bool fDeleteOnRelease, out IStream stream);
+
+        private static IStream CreateNativeStream()
+        {
+            IStream stream = null;
+            Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHR(CreateStreamOnHGlobal(IntPtr.Zero, fDeleteOnRelease: true, stream: out stream));
+            return stream;
+        }
 
         public PdbWriter(string fileName, Func<object> symWriterFactory = null)
         {
@@ -600,7 +607,7 @@ public void SetMetadataEmitter(MetadataWriter metadataWriter)
                 // and the resulting PDB has Age = existing_age + 1.
                 // PERF: Use a native stream for the write and copy it at the end. This reduces the total GC
                 // allocations for the COM interop and geometric growth of the underlying managed stream.
-                _nativeStream = SHCreateMemStream(IntPtr.Zero, 0u);
+                _nativeStream = CreateNativeStream();
 
                 instance.Initialize(new PdbMetadataWrapper(metadataWriter), _fileName, _nativeStream, fullBuild: true);