diff --git a/src/windows/native/sun/security/mscapi/security.cpp b/src/windows/native/sun/security/mscapi/security.cpp
index 5923d8492bb505a177cb68ac02435dc274eb984c..508eabeb66b24fa47d295cc70d47989b3bc2dbb4 100644
--- a/src/windows/native/sun/security/mscapi/security.cpp
+++ b/src/windows/native/sun/security/mscapi/security.cpp
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ void ThrowException(JNIEnv *env, const char *exceptionName, DWORD dwError)
  * Overloaded 'operator new[]' variant, which will raise Java's
  * OutOfMemoryError in the case of a failure.
  */
-static void* operator new[](std::size_t size, JNIEnv *env)
+void* operator new[](std::size_t size, JNIEnv *env)
 {
     void* buf = ::operator new[](size, std::nothrow);
     if (buf == NULL) {