diff --git a/src/hb-common.cc b/src/hb-common.cc
index 243c2163ef169bb4955301de9ffff05a8ee91d0a..8ec269eb107a46f557b6c68d3ec4ce3d4530aafd 100644
--- a/src/hb-common.cc
+++ b/src/hb-common.cc
@@ -1069,3 +1069,12 @@ hb_variation_to_string (hb_variation_t *variation,
   memcpy (buf, s, len);
   buf[len] = '\0';
 }
+
+/* If there is no visibility control, then hb-static.cc will NOT
+ * define anything.  Instead, we get it to define one set in here
+ * only, so only libharfbuzz.so defines them, not other libs. */
+#ifdef HB_NO_VISIBILITY
+#undef HB_NO_VISIBILITY
+#include "hb-static.cc"
+#define HB_NO_VISIBILITY 1
+#endif
diff --git a/src/hb-private.hh b/src/hb-private.hh
index ddb256f80d52a7e85d47a56f3bbcaf734e16da33..37a2eb8deb9b397db6bbddbaaf8f83d646a8cf02 100644
--- a/src/hb-private.hh
+++ b/src/hb-private.hh
@@ -375,16 +375,8 @@ typedef uint64_t hb_vector_size_impl_t;
 
 #define HB_NULL_POOL_SIZE 264
 
-#ifdef HB_NO_VISIBILITY
-static
-#else
 extern HB_INTERNAL
-#endif
-hb_vector_size_impl_t const _hb_NullPool[(HB_NULL_POOL_SIZE + sizeof (hb_vector_size_impl_t) - 1) / sizeof (hb_vector_size_impl_t)]
-#ifdef HB_NO_VISIBILITY
-= {}
-#endif
-;
+hb_vector_size_impl_t const _hb_NullPool[(HB_NULL_POOL_SIZE + sizeof (hb_vector_size_impl_t) - 1) / sizeof (hb_vector_size_impl_t)];
 
 /* Generic nul-content Null objects. */
 template <typename Type>
@@ -413,16 +405,8 @@ static_assert (Namespace::Type::min_size + 1 <= sizeof (_Null##Type), "Null pool
  * for correct operation. It only exist to catch and divert program logic bugs instead of
  * causing bad memory access. So, races there are not actually introducing incorrectness
  * in the code. Has ~12kb binary size overhead to have it, also clang build fails with it. */
-#ifdef HB_NO_VISIBILITY
-static
-#else
 extern HB_INTERNAL
-#endif
-/*thread_local*/ hb_vector_size_impl_t _hb_CrapPool[(HB_NULL_POOL_SIZE + sizeof (hb_vector_size_impl_t) - 1) / sizeof (hb_vector_size_impl_t)]
-#ifdef HB_NO_VISIBILITY
-= {}
-#endif
-;
+/*thread_local*/ hb_vector_size_impl_t _hb_CrapPool[(HB_NULL_POOL_SIZE + sizeof (hb_vector_size_impl_t) - 1) / sizeof (hb_vector_size_impl_t)];
 
 /* CRAP pool: Common Region for Access Protection. */
 template <typename Type>
diff --git a/src/hb-static.cc b/src/hb-static.cc
index 729b242c56ba22d895331d3b1c28d9a599560f18..bc4bf547d3c78c056f5d88dbcb6fca3b60dfe4a7 100644
--- a/src/hb-static.cc
+++ b/src/hb-static.cc
@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@
 #include "hb-ot-maxp-table.hh"
 
 #ifndef HB_NO_VISIBILITY
+
 hb_vector_size_impl_t const _hb_NullPool[(HB_NULL_POOL_SIZE + sizeof (hb_vector_size_impl_t) - 1) / sizeof (hb_vector_size_impl_t)] = {};
 /*thread_local*/ hb_vector_size_impl_t _hb_CrapPool[(HB_NULL_POOL_SIZE + sizeof (hb_vector_size_impl_t) - 1) / sizeof (hb_vector_size_impl_t)] = {};
-#endif
 
 void
 hb_face_t::load_num_glyphs (void) const
@@ -52,3 +52,5 @@ hb_face_t::load_upem (void) const
   upem = head_table->get_upem ();
   hb_blob_destroy (head_blob);
 }
+
+#endif