diff --git a/base/.gitignore b/base/.gitignore
index 3121265e546a4..463d2f01f7bdf 100644
--- a/base/.gitignore
+++ b/base/.gitignore
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 /pcre_h.jl
 /errno_h.jl
 /build_h.jl
-/fenv_constants.jl
 /file_constants.jl
 /uv_constants.jl
 /version_git.jl
diff --git a/base/Makefile b/base/Makefile
index 9fd1d56cc1db1..9edca7ec8f417 100644
--- a/base/Makefile
+++ b/base/Makefile
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ else
 CPP_STDOUT := $(CPP) -E
 endif
 
-all: $(addprefix $(BUILDDIR)/,pcre_h.jl errno_h.jl build_h.jl.phony fenv_constants.jl file_constants.jl uv_constants.jl version_git.jl.phony)
+all: $(addprefix $(BUILDDIR)/,pcre_h.jl errno_h.jl build_h.jl.phony file_constants.jl uv_constants.jl version_git.jl.phony)
 
 PCRE_CONST := 0x[0-9a-fA-F]+|[0-9]+
 ifeq ($(USE_SYSTEM_PCRE), 1)
@@ -27,9 +27,6 @@ $(BUILDDIR)/pcre_h.jl: $(PCRE_INCL_PATH)
 $(BUILDDIR)/errno_h.jl:
 	@$(call PRINT_PERL, echo '#include <errno.h>' | $(CPP) -dM - | perl -nle 'print "const $$1 = Int32($$2)" if /^#define\s+(E\w+)\s+(\d+)\s*$$/' | LC_ALL=C sort > $@)
 
-$(BUILDDIR)/fenv_constants.jl: $(SRCDIR)/../src/fenv_constants.h
-	@$(PRINT_PERL) $(CPP_STDOUT) -DJULIA $< | tail -n 8 | perl -ple 's/\sFE_UN\w+/ 0x10/g; s/\sFE_O\w+/ 0x08/g; s/\sFE_DI\w+/ 0x04/g; s/\sFE_INV\w+/ 0x01/g; s/\sFE_TON\w+/ 0x00/g; s/\sFE_UP\w+/ 0x800/g; s/\sFE_DO\w+/ 0x400/g; s/\sFE_TOW\w+/ 0xc00/g' > $@
-
 $(BUILDDIR)/file_constants.jl: $(SRCDIR)/../src/file_constants.h
 	@$(call PRINT_PERL, $(CPP_STDOUT) -DJULIA $< | perl -nle 'print "$$1 0o$$2" if /^(\s*const\s+[A-z_]+\s+=)\s+(0[0-9]*)\s*$$/; print "$$1" if /^\s*(const\s+[A-z_]+\s+=\s+([1-9]|0x)[0-9A-z]*)\s*$$/' > $@)
 
@@ -106,7 +103,7 @@ clean:
 	rm -f $(BUILDDIR)/errno_h.jl
 	rm -f $(BUILDDIR)/build_h.jl
 	rm -f $(BUILDDIR)/build_h.jl.phony
-	rm -f $(BUILDDIR)/fenv_constants.jl
+	rm -f $(BUILDDIR)/fenv_constants.jl # To be removed
 	rm -f $(BUILDDIR)/uv_constants.jl
 	rm -f $(BUILDDIR)/file_constants.jl
 	rm -f $(BUILDDIR)/version_git.jl
diff --git a/base/rounding.jl b/base/rounding.jl
index cbb740af82889..5ba4f6d6476d2 100644
--- a/base/rounding.jl
+++ b/base/rounding.jl
@@ -1,7 +1,20 @@
 # This file is a part of Julia. License is MIT: http://julialang.org/license
 
 module Rounding
-include(String(vcat(length(Core.ARGS)>=2?Core.ARGS[2].data:"".data, "fenv_constants.jl".data))) # include($BUILDROOT/base/fenv_constants.jl)
+
+let fenv_consts = Vector{Cint}(9)
+    ccall(:jl_get_fenv_consts, Void, (Ptr{Cint},), fenv_consts)
+    global const JL_FE_INEXACT = fenv_consts[1]
+    global const JL_FE_UNDERFLOW = fenv_consts[2]
+    global const JL_FE_OVERFLOW = fenv_consts[3]
+    global const JL_FE_DIVBYZERO = fenv_consts[4]
+    global const JL_FE_INVALID = fenv_consts[5]
+
+    global const JL_FE_TONEAREST = fenv_consts[6]
+    global const JL_FE_UPWARD = fenv_consts[7]
+    global const JL_FE_DOWNWARD = fenv_consts[8]
+    global const JL_FE_TOWARDZERO = fenv_consts[9]
+end
 
 export
     RoundingMode, RoundNearest, RoundToZero, RoundUp, RoundDown, RoundFromZero,
diff --git a/src/fenv_constants.h b/src/fenv_constants.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 5b3778e21987a..0000000000000
--- a/src/fenv_constants.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-// This file is a part of Julia. License is MIT: http://julialang.org/license
-
-#include <fenv.h>
-const JL_FE_INEXACT = FE_INEXACT
-const JL_FE_UNDERFLOW = FE_UNDERFLOW
-const JL_FE_OVERFLOW = FE_OVERFLOW
-const JL_FE_DIVBYZERO = FE_DIVBYZERO
-const JL_FE_INVALID = FE_INVALID
-const JL_FE_TONEAREST = FE_TONEAREST
-const JL_FE_UPWARD = FE_UPWARD
-const JL_FE_DOWNWARD = FE_DOWNWARD
-const JL_FE_TOWARDZERO = FE_TOWARDZERO
diff --git a/src/jlapi.c b/src/jlapi.c
index f4fbd12e5461a..7d11fc663143d 100644
--- a/src/jlapi.c
+++ b/src/jlapi.c
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 extern "C" {
+#include <cfenv>
+#else
+#include <fenv.h>
 #endif
 
 #if defined(_OS_WINDOWS_) && !defined(_COMPILER_MINGW_)
@@ -367,6 +370,19 @@ JL_DLLEXPORT void (jl_cpu_wake)(void)
     jl_cpu_wake();
 }
 
+JL_DLLEXPORT void jl_get_fenv_consts(int *ret)
+{
+    ret[0] = FE_INEXACT;
+    ret[1] = FE_UNDERFLOW;
+    ret[2] = FE_OVERFLOW;
+    ret[3] = FE_DIVBYZERO;
+    ret[4] = FE_INVALID;
+    ret[5] = FE_TONEAREST;
+    ret[6] = FE_UPWARD;
+    ret[7] = FE_DOWNWARD;
+    ret[8] = FE_TOWARDZERO;
+}
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif