diff --git a/src/loadso/windows/SDL_sysloadso.c b/src/loadso/windows/SDL_sysloadso.c
index 21e7a6c54..ebad03453 100644
--- a/src/loadso/windows/SDL_sysloadso.c
+++ b/src/loadso/windows/SDL_sysloadso.c
@@ -34,6 +34,19 @@ SDL_LoadObject(const char *sofile)
 {
     LPTSTR tstr = WIN_UTF8ToString(sofile);
     void *handle = (void *) LoadLibrary(tstr);
+
+	/* By default LoadLibrary uses the current working directory 
+	* as the first item on the search path for implicit dependencies
+	* of whatever it's loading. That is somewhat inconsistent with
+	* what dlopen does on other platforms, so we will try again
+	* with LoadLibraryEx and a slightly different search path. This
+	* causes Windows to search for dependencies in the directory 
+	* that the module itself lives in. */
+	if(handle == NULL)
+	{
+		handle = (void *) LoadLibraryEx(tstr, NULL, LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH);
+	}
+
     SDL_free(tstr);
 
     /* Generate an error message if all loads failed */