diff --git a/src/uu/rm/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/rm/Cargo.toml
index 9974111aa..d84756fd3 100644
--- a/src/uu/rm/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/rm/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,10 +18,12 @@ path = "src/rm.rs"
 clap = "2.33"
 walkdir = "2.2"
 remove_dir_all = "0.5.1"
+winapi = { version="0.3", features=[] }
 
 uucore = { version=">=0.0.8", package="uucore", path="../../uucore", features=["fs"] }
 uucore_procs = { version=">=0.0.5", package="uucore_procs", path="../../uucore_procs" }
 
+
 [[bin]]
 name = "rm"
 path = "src/main.rs"
diff --git a/src/uu/rm/src/rm.rs b/src/uu/rm/src/rm.rs
index ba764034a..ea56ca170 100644
--- a/src/uu/rm/src/rm.rs
+++ b/src/uu/rm/src/rm.rs
@@ -430,9 +430,7 @@ use std::os::windows::prelude::MetadataExt;
 
 #[cfg(windows)]
 fn is_symlink_dir(metadata: &fs::Metadata) -> bool {
-    use std::os::raw::c_ulong;
-    pub type DWORD = c_ulong;
-    pub const FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY: DWORD = 0x10;
+    use winapi::um::winnt::FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY;
 
     metadata.file_type().is_symlink()
         && ((metadata.file_attributes() & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) != 0)