Porting GNU libraries

Hello

I'm trying to port libsqlite which is a dependency for another application (which I'm also trying to port). The build of this library is a one line compilation. But it requires a -ldl flag for dynamically loaded libraries (it uses dlopen() and dlfcn.h). I've tried getting the source for this, to no avail so far. Is there a way to link libraries directly from the linux host. Intuitively, that doesn't seem to work. Thoughts on how to move forward?

Thanks and regards, Aditya