diff --git a/Source/cmDynamicLoader.cxx b/Source/cmDynamicLoader.cxx
index 1a050607c..d1b15103d 100644
--- a/Source/cmDynamicLoader.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmDynamicLoader.cxx
@@ -9,34 +9,26 @@
   Copyright (c) 2002 Kitware, Inc., Insight Consortium.  All rights reserved.
   See Copyright.txt or http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Copyright.html for details.
 
-     This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even 
-     the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 
+     This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
+     the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
      PURPOSE.  See the above copyright notices for more information.
 
 =========================================================================*/
 #include "cmDynamicLoader.h"
 
-// This file is actually several different implementations.
-// 1. HP machines which uses shl_load
-// 2. Mac OS X 10.2.x and earlier which uses NSLinkModule
-// 3. Windows which uses LoadLibrary
-// 4. Most unix systems (including Mac OS X 10.3 and later) which use dlopen (default)
-// Each part of the ifdef contains a complete implementation for
-// the static methods of cmDynamicLoader.  
-
-
-class cmDynamicLoaderCache 
+class cmDynamicLoaderCache
 {
 public:
   ~cmDynamicLoaderCache();
-  void CacheFile(const char* path, const cmLibHandle&);
-  bool GetCacheFile(const char* path, cmLibHandle&);
+  void CacheFile(const char* path,
+    const cmsys::DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle&);
+  bool GetCacheFile(const char* path, cmsys::DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle&);
   bool FlushCache(const char* path);
   void FlushCache();
   static cmDynamicLoaderCache* GetInstance();
 
 private:
-  std::map<cmStdString, cmLibHandle> CacheMap;
+  std::map<cmStdString, cmsys::DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle> CacheMap;
   static cmDynamicLoaderCache* Instance;
 };
 
@@ -46,9 +38,10 @@ cmDynamicLoaderCache::~cmDynamicLoaderCache()
 {
 }
 
-void cmDynamicLoaderCache::CacheFile(const char* path, const cmLibHandle& p)
+void cmDynamicLoaderCache::CacheFile(const char* path,
+  const cmsys::DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle& p)
 {
-  cmLibHandle h;
+  cmsys::DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle h;
   if ( this->GetCacheFile(path, h) )
     {
     this->FlushCache(path);
@@ -56,9 +49,11 @@ void cmDynamicLoaderCache::CacheFile(const char* path, const cmLibHandle& p)
   this->CacheMap[path] = p;
 }
 
-bool cmDynamicLoaderCache::GetCacheFile(const char* path, cmLibHandle& p)
+bool cmDynamicLoaderCache::GetCacheFile(const char* path,
+  cmsys::DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle& p)
 {
-  std::map<cmStdString, cmLibHandle>::iterator it = this->CacheMap.find(path);
+  std::map<cmStdString, cmsys::DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle>::iterator it
+    = this->CacheMap.find(path);
   if ( it != this->CacheMap.end() )
     {
     p = it->second;
@@ -69,11 +64,12 @@ bool cmDynamicLoaderCache::GetCacheFile(const char* path, cmLibHandle& p)
 
 bool cmDynamicLoaderCache::FlushCache(const char* path)
 {
-  std::map<cmStdString, cmLibHandle>::iterator it = this->CacheMap.find(path);
+  std::map<cmStdString, cmsys::DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle>::iterator it
+    = this->CacheMap.find(path);
   bool ret = false;
   if ( it != this->CacheMap.end() )
     {
-    cmDynamicLoader::CloseLibrary(it->second);
+    cmsys::DynamicLoader::CloseLibrary(it->second);
     this->CacheMap.erase(it);
     ret = true;
     }
@@ -82,10 +78,12 @@ bool cmDynamicLoaderCache::FlushCache(const char* path)
 
 void cmDynamicLoaderCache::FlushCache()
 {
-  for ( std::map<cmStdString, cmLibHandle>::iterator it = this->CacheMap.begin();
+  for ( std::map<cmStdString,
+    cmsys::DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle>::iterator it
+    = this->CacheMap.begin();
         it != this->CacheMap.end(); it++ )
     {
-    cmDynamicLoader::CloseLibrary(it->second);
+    cmsys::DynamicLoader::CloseLibrary(it->second);
     }
   delete cmDynamicLoaderCache::Instance;
   cmDynamicLoaderCache::Instance = 0;
@@ -100,231 +98,19 @@ cmDynamicLoaderCache* cmDynamicLoaderCache::GetInstance()
   return cmDynamicLoaderCache::Instance;
 }
 
-// ---------------------------------------------------------------
-// 1. Implementation for HPUX  machines
-#ifdef __hpux
-#define CMDYNAMICLOADER_DEFINED 1
-#include <dl.h>
-
-cmLibHandle cmDynamicLoader::OpenLibrary(const char* libname )
+cmsys::DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle cmDynamicLoader::OpenLibrary(
+  const char* libname )
 {
-  cmLibHandle lh;
+  cmsys::DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle lh;
   if ( cmDynamicLoaderCache::GetInstance()->GetCacheFile(libname, lh) )
     {
     return lh;
     }
-  
-  lh = shl_load(libname, BIND_DEFERRED | DYNAMIC_PATH, 0L);
+  lh = cmsys::DynamicLoader::OpenLibrary(libname);
   cmDynamicLoaderCache::GetInstance()->CacheFile(libname, lh);
   return lh;
 }
 
-int cmDynamicLoader::CloseLibrary(cmLibHandle lib)
-{
-  return !shl_unload(lib);
-}
-
-cmDynamicLoaderFunction
-cmDynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(cmLibHandle lib, const char* sym)
-{ 
-  void* addr;
-  int status;
-  
-  status = shl_findsym (&lib, sym, TYPE_PROCEDURE, &addr);
-  void* result = (status < 0) ? (void*)0 : addr;
-  
-  // Hack to cast pointer-to-data to pointer-to-function.
-  return *reinterpret_cast<cmDynamicLoaderFunction*>(&result);
-}
-
-
-const char* cmDynamicLoader::LastError()
-{
-  return 0;
-}
-#endif
-
-
-
-// ---------------------------------------------------------------
-// 2. Implementation for Mac OS X 10.2.x and earlier
-#ifdef __APPLE__
-#if MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED < 1030
-#define CMDYNAMICLOADER_DEFINED 1
-#include <mach-o/dyld.h>
-
-cmLibHandle cmDynamicLoader::OpenLibrary(const char* libname )
-{
-  cmLibHandle lh;
-  if ( cmDynamicLoaderCache::GetInstance()->GetCacheFile(libname, lh) )
-    {
-    return lh;
-    }
-  
-  NSObjectFileImageReturnCode rc;
-  NSObjectFileImage image = 0;
-
-  rc = NSCreateObjectFileImageFromFile(libname, &image);
-  if(!image)
-    {
-    return 0;
-    }
-  lh = NSLinkModule(image, libname, NSLINKMODULE_OPTION_BINDNOW);
-  if(lh)
-    {
-    cmDynamicLoaderCache::GetInstance()->CacheFile(libname, lh);
-    }
-  return lh;
-}
-
-int cmDynamicLoader::CloseLibrary(cmLibHandle lib)
-{
-  NSUnLinkModule((NSModule)lib, NSUNLINKMODULE_OPTION_NONE);
-  return 1;
-}
-
-cmDynamicLoaderFunction
-cmDynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(cmLibHandle /* lib */, const char* sym)
-{
-  void *result=0;
-  if(NSIsSymbolNameDefined(sym))
-    {
-    NSSymbol symbol= NSLookupAndBindSymbol(sym);
-    if(symbol)
-      {
-      result = NSAddressOfSymbol(symbol);
-      }
-    }
-  // Hack to cast pointer-to-data to pointer-to-function.
-  return *reinterpret_cast<cmDynamicLoaderFunction*>(&result);
-}
-
-const char* cmDynamicLoader::LastError()
-{
-  return 0;
-}
-
-#endif
-#endif
-
-
-
-
-// ---------------------------------------------------------------
-// 3. Implementation for Windows win32 code
-#ifdef _WIN32
-#include <windows.h>
-#define CMDYNAMICLOADER_DEFINED 1
-
-cmLibHandle cmDynamicLoader::OpenLibrary(const char* libname )
-{
-  cmLibHandle lh;
-  if ( cmDynamicLoaderCache::GetInstance()->GetCacheFile(libname, lh) )
-    {
-    return lh;
-    }
-#ifdef UNICODE
-  wchar_t *libn = new wchar_t [mbstowcs(NULL, libname, 32000)];
-  mbstowcs(libn, libname, 32000);
-  cmLibHandle ret = LoadLibrary(libn);
-  delete [] libn;
-  lh = ret;
-#else
-  lh = LoadLibrary(libname);
-#endif
-  
-  cmDynamicLoaderCache::GetInstance()->CacheFile(libname, lh);
-  return lh;
-}
-
-int cmDynamicLoader::CloseLibrary(cmLibHandle lib)
-{
-  return (int)FreeLibrary(lib);
-}
-
-cmDynamicLoaderFunction
-cmDynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(cmLibHandle lib, const char* sym)
-{ 
-#ifdef UNICODE
-  wchar_t *wsym = new wchar_t [mbstowcs(NULL, sym, 32000)];
-  mbstowcs(wsym, sym, 32000);
-  void *ret = GetProcAddress(lib, wsym);
-  delete [] wsym;
-  void* result = ret;
-#else
-  void* result = (void*)GetProcAddress(lib, sym);
-#endif
-  // Hack to cast pointer-to-data to pointer-to-function.
-  return *reinterpret_cast<cmDynamicLoaderFunction*>(&result);
-}
-
-
-const char* cmDynamicLoader::LastError()
-{
-  LPVOID lpMsgBuf;
-
-  FormatMessage( 
-                FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER | FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM,
-                NULL,
-                GetLastError(),
-                MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT), // Default language
-                (LPTSTR) &lpMsgBuf,
-                0,
-                NULL 
-                );
-  
-  // Free the buffer.
- 
-  static char* str = 0;
-  delete [] str;
-  str = strcpy(new char[strlen((char*)lpMsgBuf)+1], (char*)lpMsgBuf); 
-  LocalFree( lpMsgBuf );
-  return str;
-}
-
-#endif
-
-// ---------------------------------------------------------------
-// 4. Implementation for default UNIX machines.
-// if nothing has been defined then use this
-#ifndef CMDYNAMICLOADER_DEFINED
-#define CMDYNAMICLOADER_DEFINED 1
-// Setup for most unix machines
-#include <dlfcn.h>
-
-cmLibHandle cmDynamicLoader::OpenLibrary(const char* libname )
-{
-  cmLibHandle lh;
-  if ( cmDynamicLoaderCache::GetInstance()->GetCacheFile(libname, lh) )
-    {
-    return lh;
-    }
-  
-  lh = dlopen(libname, RTLD_LAZY);
-  cmDynamicLoaderCache::GetInstance()->CacheFile(libname, lh);
-  return lh;
-}
-
-int cmDynamicLoader::CloseLibrary(cmLibHandle lib)
-{
-  return !(int)dlclose(lib);
-}
-
-cmDynamicLoaderFunction
-cmDynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(cmLibHandle lib, const char* sym)
-{ 
-  void* result = dlsym(lib, sym);
-  
-  // Hack to cast pointer-to-data to pointer-to-function.
-  return *reinterpret_cast<cmDynamicLoaderFunction*>(&result);
-}
-
-const char* cmDynamicLoader::LastError()
-{
-  return dlerror(); 
-}
-#endif
-
 void cmDynamicLoader::FlushCache()
 {
   cmDynamicLoaderCache::GetInstance()->FlushCache();
@@ -333,7 +119,7 @@ void cmDynamicLoader::FlushCache()
 // Stay consistent with the Modules/Platform directory as
 // to what the correct prefix and lib extension
 const char* cmDynamicLoader::LibPrefix()
-{ 
+{
   return CMAKE_SHARED_MODULE_PREFIX;
 }
 
diff --git a/Source/cmDynamicLoader.h b/Source/cmDynamicLoader.h
index 3c7d3b459..29b6669a0 100644
--- a/Source/cmDynamicLoader.h
+++ b/Source/cmDynamicLoader.h
@@ -9,15 +9,15 @@
   Copyright (c) 2002 Kitware, Inc., Insight Consortium.  All rights reserved.
   See Copyright.txt or http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Copyright.html for details.
 
-     This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even 
-     the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 
+     This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
+     the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
      PURPOSE.  See the above copyright notices for more information.
 
 =========================================================================*/
 // .NAME cmDynamicLoader - class interface to system dynamic libraries
 // .SECTION Description
-// cmDynamicLoader provides a portable interface to loading dynamic 
-// libraries into a process.  
+// cmDynamicLoader provides a portable interface to loading dynamic
+// libraries into a process.
 
 
 #ifndef __cmDynamicLoader_h
@@ -25,46 +25,16 @@
 
 #include "cmStandardIncludes.h"
 
-// Ugly stuff for library handles
-// They are different on several different OS's
-#if defined(__hpux)
-  #include <dl.h>
-  typedef shl_t cmLibHandle;
-#elif defined(_WIN32)
-  #include <windows.h>
-  typedef HMODULE cmLibHandle;
-#elif defined(__APPLE__)
-  #include <AvailabilityMacros.h>
-  #if MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED < 1030
-    #include <mach-o/dyld.h>
-    typedef NSModule cmLibHandle;
-  #else
-    typedef void* cmLibHandle;
-  #endif
-#else
-  typedef void* cmLibHandle;
-#endif
-
-// Return type from cmDynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress.
-typedef void (*cmDynamicLoaderFunction)();
+#include <cmsys/DynamicLoader.hxx>
 
 class cmDynamicLoader
 {
 public:
   // Description:
   // Load a dynamic library into the current process.
-  // The returned cmLibHandle can be used to access the symbols in the 
-  // library.
-  static cmLibHandle OpenLibrary(const char*);
-
-  // Description:
-  // Attempt to detach a dynamic library from the
-  // process.  A value of true is returned if it is successful.
-  static int CloseLibrary(cmLibHandle);
-  
-  // Description:
-  // Find the address of the symbol in the given library
-  static cmDynamicLoaderFunction GetSymbolAddress(cmLibHandle, const char*);
+  // The returned cmsys::DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle can be used to access
+  // the symbols in the library.
+  static cmsys::DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle OpenLibrary(const char*);
 
   // Description:
   // Return the library prefix for the given architecture
@@ -74,19 +44,14 @@ public:
   // Return the library extension for the given architecture
   static const char* LibExtension();
 
-  // Description:
-  // Return the last error produced from a calls made on this class.
-  static const char* LastError();
-
   // Description:
   // Flush the cache of dynamic loader.
   static void FlushCache();
-  
+
 protected:
   cmDynamicLoader() {};
   ~cmDynamicLoader() {};
 
-  
 private:
   cmDynamicLoader(const cmDynamicLoader&);  // Not implemented.
   void operator=(const cmDynamicLoader&);  // Not implemented.
diff --git a/Source/cmLoadCommandCommand.cxx b/Source/cmLoadCommandCommand.cxx
index 4fc9b7f66..4ade0530a 100644
--- a/Source/cmLoadCommandCommand.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmLoadCommandCommand.cxx
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
 #include "cmCPluginAPI.h"
 #include "cmCPluginAPI.cxx"
 #include "cmDynamicLoader.h"
+
+#include <cmsys/DynamicLoader.hxx>
+
 #include <signal.h>
 extern "C" void TrapsForSignalsCFunction(int sig);
 
@@ -254,12 +257,13 @@ bool cmLoadCommandCommand::InitialPass(std::vector<std::string> const& args)
     }
 
   // try loading the shared library / dll
-  cmLibHandle lib = cmDynamicLoader::OpenLibrary(fullPath.c_str());
+  cmsys::DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle lib
+    = cmDynamicLoader::OpenLibrary(fullPath.c_str());
   if(!lib)
     {
     std::string err = "Attempt to load the library ";
     err += fullPath + " failed.";
-    const char* error = cmDynamicLoader::LastError();
+    const char* error = cmsys::DynamicLoader::LastError();
     if ( error )
       {
       err += " Additional error info is:\n";
@@ -276,14 +280,14 @@ bool cmLoadCommandCommand::InitialPass(std::vector<std::string> const& args)
   std::string initFuncName = args[0] + "Init";
   CM_INIT_FUNCTION initFunction
     = (CM_INIT_FUNCTION)
-    cmDynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(lib, initFuncName.c_str());
+    cmsys::DynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(lib, initFuncName.c_str());
   if ( !initFunction )
     {
     initFuncName = "_";
     initFuncName += args[0];
     initFuncName += "Init";
     initFunction = (CM_INIT_FUNCTION)(
-      cmDynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(lib, initFuncName.c_str()));
+      cmsys::DynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(lib, initFuncName.c_str()));
     }
   // if the symbol is found call it to set the name on the 
   // function blocker
diff --git a/Source/cmSystemTools.cxx b/Source/cmSystemTools.cxx
index 6199cf77e..e32fc53e2 100644
--- a/Source/cmSystemTools.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmSystemTools.cxx
@@ -1501,6 +1501,10 @@ bool cmSystemTools::CreateTar(const char* outFileName,
     }
   return true;
 #else
+  (void)outFileName;
+  (void)files;
+  (void)gzip;
+  (void)verbose;
   return false;
 #endif
 }
@@ -1553,6 +1557,9 @@ bool cmSystemTools::ExtractTar(const char* outFileName,
     }
   return true;
 #else
+  (void)outFileName;
+  (void)gzip;
+  (void)verbose;
   return false;
 #endif
 }
@@ -1623,6 +1630,10 @@ bool cmSystemTools::ListTar(const char* outFileName,
     }
   return true;
 #else
+  (void)outFileName;
+  (void)files;
+  (void)gzip;
+  (void)verbose;
   return false;
 #endif
 }
diff --git a/Source/cmakemain.cxx b/Source/cmakemain.cxx
index 8c8c013fc..84a7fbf19 100644
--- a/Source/cmakemain.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmakemain.cxx
@@ -17,10 +17,10 @@
 #include "cmakewizard.h"
 #include "cmake.h"
 #include "cmCacheManager.h"
-#include "cmDynamicLoader.h"
 #include "cmListFileCache.h"
 
 #ifdef CMAKE_BUILD_WITH_CMAKE
+#include "cmDynamicLoader.h"
 #include "cmDocumentation.h"
 
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/Source/kwsys/DynamicLoader.cxx b/Source/kwsys/DynamicLoader.cxx
index fed90ea26..486d5b3c9 100644
--- a/Source/kwsys/DynamicLoader.cxx
+++ b/Source/kwsys/DynamicLoader.cxx
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@
 // 1. HP machines which uses shl_load
 // 2. Mac OS X 10.2.x and earlier which uses NSLinkModule
 // 3. Windows which uses LoadLibrary
-// 4. Most unix systems (including Mac OS X 10.3 and later) which use dlopen (default)
-// Each part of the ifdef contains a complete implementation for
+// 4. Most unix systems (including Mac OS X 10.3 and later) which use dlopen
+// (default) Each part of the ifdef contains a complete implementation for
 // the static methods of DynamicLoader.
 
 namespace KWSYS_NAMESPACE
@@ -66,25 +66,25 @@ namespace KWSYS_NAMESPACE
 {
 
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-LibHandle DynamicLoader::OpenLibrary(const char* libname )
+DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle DynamicLoader::OpenLibrary(const char* libname )
 {
   return shl_load(libname, BIND_DEFERRED | DYNAMIC_PATH, 0L);
 }
 
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-int DynamicLoader::CloseLibrary(LibHandle lib)
+int DynamicLoader::CloseLibrary(DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle lib)
 {
   return !shl_unload(lib);
 }
 
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-DynamicLoaderFunction
-DynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(LibHandle lib, const char* sym)
+DynamicLoader::SymbolPointer
+DynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle lib, const char* sym)
 {
   void* addr;
   int status;
 
-  /* TYPE_PROCEDURE Look for a function or procedure.
+  /* TYPE_PROCEDURE Look for a function or procedure. (This used to be default)
    * TYPE_DATA      Look for a symbol in the data segment (for example, variables).
    * TYPE_UNDEFINED Look for any symbol.
    */
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ DynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(LibHandle lib, const char* sym)
   void* result = (status < 0) ? (void*)0 : addr;
 
   // Hack to cast pointer-to-data to pointer-to-function.
-  return *reinterpret_cast<DynamicLoaderFunction*>(&result);
+  return *reinterpret_cast<DynamicLoader::SymbolPointer*>(&result);
 }
 
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ namespace KWSYS_NAMESPACE
 {
 
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-LibHandle DynamicLoader::OpenLibrary(const char* libname )
+DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle DynamicLoader::OpenLibrary(const char* libname )
 {
   NSObjectFileImageReturnCode rc;
   NSObjectFileImage image = 0;
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ LibHandle DynamicLoader::OpenLibrary(const char* libname )
 }
 
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-int DynamicLoader::CloseLibrary( LibHandle lib)
+int DynamicLoader::CloseLibrary( DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle lib)
 {
   // NSUNLINKMODULE_OPTION_KEEP_MEMORY_MAPPED
   // With  this  option  the memory for the module is not deallocated
@@ -179,7 +179,8 @@ int DynamicLoader::CloseLibrary( LibHandle lib)
 }
 
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-DynamicLoaderFunction DynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(LibHandle lib, const char* sym)
+DynamicLoader::SymbolPointer DynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(
+  DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle lib, const char* sym)
 {
   void *result=0;
   // Need to prepend symbols with '_' on Apple-gcc compilers
@@ -196,7 +197,7 @@ DynamicLoaderFunction DynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(LibHandle lib, const char*
 
   delete[] rsym;
   // Hack to cast pointer-to-data to pointer-to-function.
-  return *reinterpret_cast<DynamicLoaderFunction*>(&result);
+  return *reinterpret_cast<DynamicLoader::SymbolPointer*>(&result);
 }
 
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -235,9 +236,9 @@ namespace KWSYS_NAMESPACE
 {
 
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-LibHandle DynamicLoader::OpenLibrary(const char* libname)
+DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle DynamicLoader::OpenLibrary(const char* libname)
 {
-  LibHandle lh;
+  DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle lh;
 #ifdef UNICODE
   wchar_t libn[MB_CUR_MAX];
   mbstowcs(libn, libname, MB_CUR_MAX);
@@ -249,13 +250,14 @@ LibHandle DynamicLoader::OpenLibrary(const char* libname)
 }
 
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-int DynamicLoader::CloseLibrary(LibHandle lib)
+int DynamicLoader::CloseLibrary(DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle lib)
 {
   return (int)FreeLibrary(lib);
 }
 
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-DynamicLoaderFunction DynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(LibHandle lib, const char* sym)
+DynamicLoader::SymbolPointer DynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(
+  DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle lib, const char* sym)
 {
   void *result;
 #ifdef __BORLANDC__
@@ -278,7 +280,7 @@ DynamicLoaderFunction DynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(LibHandle lib, const char*
   delete[] rsym;
 #endif
   // Hack to cast pointer-to-data to pointer-to-function.
-  return *reinterpret_cast<DynamicLoaderFunction*>(&result);
+  return *reinterpret_cast<DynamicLoader::SymbolPointer*>(&result);
 }
 
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -336,13 +338,13 @@ namespace KWSYS_NAMESPACE
 {
 
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-LibHandle DynamicLoader::OpenLibrary(const char* libname )
+DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle DynamicLoader::OpenLibrary(const char* libname )
 {
   return dlopen(libname, RTLD_LAZY);
 }
 
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-int DynamicLoader::CloseLibrary(LibHandle lib)
+int DynamicLoader::CloseLibrary(DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle lib)
 {
   if (lib)
     {
@@ -354,12 +356,13 @@ int DynamicLoader::CloseLibrary(LibHandle lib)
 }
 
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-DynamicLoaderFunction DynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(LibHandle lib, const char* sym)
+DynamicLoader::SymbolPointer DynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(
+  DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle lib, const char* sym)
 {
   void* result = dlsym(lib, sym);
 
   // Hack to cast pointer-to-data to pointer-to-function.
-  return *reinterpret_cast<DynamicLoaderFunction*>(&result);
+  return *reinterpret_cast<DynamicLoader::SymbolPointer*>(&result);
 }
 
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/Source/kwsys/DynamicLoader.hxx.in b/Source/kwsys/DynamicLoader.hxx.in
index ee6eebe9f..29d213e50 100644
--- a/Source/kwsys/DynamicLoader.hxx.in
+++ b/Source/kwsys/DynamicLoader.hxx.in
@@ -16,46 +16,8 @@
 
 #include <@KWSYS_NAMESPACE@/Configure.h>
 
-// Ugly stuff for library handles
-// They are different on several different OS's
-#if defined(__hpux)
-  #include <dl.h>
 namespace @KWSYS_NAMESPACE@
 {
-  typedef shl_t LibHandle;
-} // namespace @KWSYS_NAMESPACE@
-#elif defined(_WIN32)
-  #include <windows.h>
-namespace @KWSYS_NAMESPACE@
-{
-  typedef HMODULE LibHandle;
-} // namespace @KWSYS_NAMESPACE@
-#elif defined(__APPLE__)
-  #include <AvailabilityMacros.h>
-  #if MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED < 1030
-    #include <mach-o/dyld.h>
-namespace @KWSYS_NAMESPACE@
-{
-    typedef NSModule LibHandle;
-} // namespace @KWSYS_NAMESPACE@
-  #else
-namespace @KWSYS_NAMESPACE@
-{
-    typedef void* LibHandle;
-} // namespace @KWSYS_NAMESPACE@
-  #endif
-#else
-namespace @KWSYS_NAMESPACE@
-{
-  typedef void* LibHandle;
-} // namespace @KWSYS_NAMESPACE@
-#endif
-
-namespace @KWSYS_NAMESPACE@
-{
-// Return type from DynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress.
-typedef void (*DynamicLoaderFunction)();
-
 /** \class DynamicLoader
  * \brief Portable loading of dynamic libraries or dll's.
  *
@@ -66,31 +28,54 @@ typedef void (*DynamicLoaderFunction)();
  * operating systems
  *
  * \warning dlopen on *nix system works the following way:
- * If filename contains a slash ("/"), then it is interpreted as a (relative or absolute) 
- * pathname.  Otherwise, the dynamic linker searches for the library as follows : 
- * see ld.so(8) for further details):
- * Whereas this distinction does not exist on Win32. Therefore ideally you should be doing
- * full path to garantee to have a consistent way of dealing with dynamic loading of shared
- * library.
+ * If filename contains a slash ("/"), then it is interpreted as a (relative
+ * or absolute) pathname.  Otherwise, the dynamic linker searches for the
+ * library as follows : see ld.so(8) for further details):
+ * Whereas this distinction does not exist on Win32. Therefore ideally you
+ * should be doing full path to garantee to have a consistent way of dealing
+ * with dynamic loading of shared library.
  */
 
 class @KWSYS_NAMESPACE@_EXPORT DynamicLoader
 {
 public:
+// Ugly stuff for library handles
+// They are different on several different OS's
+#if defined(__hpux)
+  #include <dl.h>
+  typedef shl_t LibraryHandle;
+#elif defined(_WIN32)
+  #include <windows.h>
+  typedef HMODULE LibraryHandle;
+#elif defined(__APPLE__)
+  #include <AvailabilityMacros.h>
+  #if MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED < 1030
+    #include <mach-o/dyld.h>
+    typedef NSModule LibraryHandle;
+  #else
+    typedef void* LibraryHandle;
+  #endif
+#else
+  typedef void* LibraryHandle;
+#endif
+
+  // Return type from DynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress.
+  typedef void (*SymbolPointer)();
+
   DynamicLoader();
   ~DynamicLoader();
 
   /** Load a dynamic library into the current process.
-   * The returned LibHandle can be used to access the symbols in the
+   * The returned LibraryHandle can be used to access the symbols in the
    * library. */
-  static LibHandle OpenLibrary(const char*);
+  static LibraryHandle OpenLibrary(const char*);
 
   /** Attempt to detach a dynamic library from the
    * process.  A value of true is returned if it is sucessful. */
-  static int CloseLibrary(LibHandle);
+  static int CloseLibrary(LibraryHandle);
 
   /** Find the address of the symbol in the given library. */
-  static DynamicLoaderFunction GetSymbolAddress(LibHandle, const char*);
+  static SymbolPointer GetSymbolAddress(LibraryHandle, const char*);
 
   /** Return the library prefix for the given architecture */
   static const char* LibPrefix();
diff --git a/Source/kwsys/testDynamicLoader.cxx b/Source/kwsys/testDynamicLoader.cxx
index efd84d6a9..444f6d9be 100644
--- a/Source/kwsys/testDynamicLoader.cxx
+++ b/Source/kwsys/testDynamicLoader.cxx
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ kwsys_stl::string GetLibName(const char* lname)
 int TestDynamicLoader(const char* libname, const char* symbol, int r1, int r2, int r3)
 {
   kwsys_ios::cerr << "Testing: " << libname << kwsys_ios::endl;
-  kwsys::LibHandle l = kwsys::DynamicLoader::OpenLibrary(libname);
+  kwsys::DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle l
+    = kwsys::DynamicLoader::OpenLibrary(libname);
   // If result is incompatible with expectation just fails (xor):
   if( (r1 && !l) || (!r1 && l) )
     {
@@ -61,7 +62,8 @@ int TestDynamicLoader(const char* libname, const char* symbol, int r1, int r2, i
       << kwsys::DynamicLoader::LastError() << kwsys_ios::endl;
     return 1;
     }
-  kwsys::DynamicLoaderFunction f = kwsys::DynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(l, symbol);
+  kwsys::DynamicLoader::SymbolPointer f
+    = kwsys::DynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(l, symbol);
   if( (r2 && !f) || (!r2 && f) )
     {
     kwsys_ios::cerr
@@ -104,8 +106,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
   // Now try on the generated library
   kwsys_stl::string libname = GetLibName("testDynload");
   res += TestDynamicLoader(libname.c_str(), "dummy",1,0,1);
-  res += TestDynamicLoader(libname.c_str(), "TestDynamicLoaderFunction",1,1,1);
-  res += TestDynamicLoader(libname.c_str(), "_TestDynamicLoaderFunction",1,0,1);
+  res += TestDynamicLoader(libname.c_str(), "TestDynamicLoaderSymbolPointer",1,1,1);
+  res += TestDynamicLoader(libname.c_str(), "_TestDynamicLoaderSymbolPointer",1,0,1);
   res += TestDynamicLoader(libname.c_str(), "TestDynamicLoaderData",1,1,1);
   res += TestDynamicLoader(libname.c_str(), "_TestDynamicLoaderData",1,0,1);
 
diff --git a/Source/kwsys/testDynload.c b/Source/kwsys/testDynload.c
index 7308530c0..67c33c35a 100644
--- a/Source/kwsys/testDynload.c
+++ b/Source/kwsys/testDynload.c
@@ -6,6 +6,6 @@
 
 DL_EXPORT int TestDynamicLoaderData = 0;
 
-DL_EXPORT void TestDynamicLoaderFunction()
+DL_EXPORT void TestDynamicLoaderSymbolPointer()
 {
 }
diff --git a/Tests/Complex/Executable/complex.cxx b/Tests/Complex/Executable/complex.cxx
index 67459d62a..e07845c27 100644
--- a/Tests/Complex/Executable/complex.cxx
+++ b/Tests/Complex/Executable/complex.cxx
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ extern "C" {
 #include "cmSystemTools.h"
 #include "cmOrderLinkDirectories.h"
 #include "cmGeneratedFileStream.h"
+#include <cmsys/DynamicLoader.hxx>
 #else
 #include <vector>
 #include <string>
@@ -327,7 +328,7 @@ int main()
   lib += cmDynamicLoader::LibPrefix();
   lib += "CMakeTestModule";
   lib += cmDynamicLoader::LibExtension();
-  cmLibHandle handle = cmDynamicLoader::OpenLibrary(lib.c_str());
+  cmsys::DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle handle = cmDynamicLoader::OpenLibrary(lib.c_str());
   if(!handle)
     {
     std::string err = "Can not open CMakeTestModule:\n";
@@ -336,11 +337,11 @@ int main()
     }
   else
     {
-    cmDynamicLoaderFunction fun = 
-    cmDynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(handle, "ModuleFunction"); 
+    cmsys::DynamicLoader::SymbolPointer fun = 
+      cmsys::DynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(handle, "ModuleFunction"); 
     if(!fun)
       {
-      fun = cmDynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(handle, "_ModuleFunction");
+      fun = cmsys::DynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(handle, "_ModuleFunction");
       }
     typedef int (*TEST_FUNCTION)();
     TEST_FUNCTION testFun = (TEST_FUNCTION)fun;
diff --git a/Tests/ComplexOneConfig/Executable/complex.cxx b/Tests/ComplexOneConfig/Executable/complex.cxx
index 67459d62a..e07845c27 100644
--- a/Tests/ComplexOneConfig/Executable/complex.cxx
+++ b/Tests/ComplexOneConfig/Executable/complex.cxx
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ extern "C" {
 #include "cmSystemTools.h"
 #include "cmOrderLinkDirectories.h"
 #include "cmGeneratedFileStream.h"
+#include <cmsys/DynamicLoader.hxx>
 #else
 #include <vector>
 #include <string>
@@ -327,7 +328,7 @@ int main()
   lib += cmDynamicLoader::LibPrefix();
   lib += "CMakeTestModule";
   lib += cmDynamicLoader::LibExtension();
-  cmLibHandle handle = cmDynamicLoader::OpenLibrary(lib.c_str());
+  cmsys::DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle handle = cmDynamicLoader::OpenLibrary(lib.c_str());
   if(!handle)
     {
     std::string err = "Can not open CMakeTestModule:\n";
@@ -336,11 +337,11 @@ int main()
     }
   else
     {
-    cmDynamicLoaderFunction fun = 
-    cmDynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(handle, "ModuleFunction"); 
+    cmsys::DynamicLoader::SymbolPointer fun = 
+      cmsys::DynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(handle, "ModuleFunction"); 
     if(!fun)
       {
-      fun = cmDynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(handle, "_ModuleFunction");
+      fun = cmsys::DynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(handle, "_ModuleFunction");
       }
     typedef int (*TEST_FUNCTION)();
     TEST_FUNCTION testFun = (TEST_FUNCTION)fun;
diff --git a/Tests/ComplexRelativePaths/Executable/complex.cxx b/Tests/ComplexRelativePaths/Executable/complex.cxx
index 67459d62a..e07845c27 100644
--- a/Tests/ComplexRelativePaths/Executable/complex.cxx
+++ b/Tests/ComplexRelativePaths/Executable/complex.cxx
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ extern "C" {
 #include "cmSystemTools.h"
 #include "cmOrderLinkDirectories.h"
 #include "cmGeneratedFileStream.h"
+#include <cmsys/DynamicLoader.hxx>
 #else
 #include <vector>
 #include <string>
@@ -327,7 +328,7 @@ int main()
   lib += cmDynamicLoader::LibPrefix();
   lib += "CMakeTestModule";
   lib += cmDynamicLoader::LibExtension();
-  cmLibHandle handle = cmDynamicLoader::OpenLibrary(lib.c_str());
+  cmsys::DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle handle = cmDynamicLoader::OpenLibrary(lib.c_str());
   if(!handle)
     {
     std::string err = "Can not open CMakeTestModule:\n";
@@ -336,11 +337,11 @@ int main()
     }
   else
     {
-    cmDynamicLoaderFunction fun = 
-    cmDynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(handle, "ModuleFunction"); 
+    cmsys::DynamicLoader::SymbolPointer fun = 
+      cmsys::DynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(handle, "ModuleFunction"); 
     if(!fun)
       {
-      fun = cmDynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(handle, "_ModuleFunction");
+      fun = cmsys::DynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(handle, "_ModuleFunction");
       }
     typedef int (*TEST_FUNCTION)();
     TEST_FUNCTION testFun = (TEST_FUNCTION)fun;