diff --git a/src/gui/luainstance.cpp b/src/gui/luainstance.cpp
index 4f9f29fb9..d893ad4dd 100644
--- a/src/gui/luainstance.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/luainstance.cpp
@@ -302,13 +302,6 @@ const luaL_Reg CLuaInstance::methods[] =
 /* hack: we link against luaposix, which is included in our
  * custom built lualib */
 extern "C" { LUAMOD_API int (luaopen_posix_c) (lua_State *L); }
-#else
-static int dolibrary (lua_State *L, const char *name) 
-{
-	lua_getglobal(L, "require");
-	lua_pushstring(L, name);
-	return report(L, lua_pcall(L, 1, 0, 0));
-}
 #endif
 /* load basic functions and register our own C callbacks */
 void CLuaInstance::registerFunctions()
@@ -321,8 +314,6 @@ void CLuaInstance::registerFunctions()
 #ifndef DYNAMIC_LUAPOSIX
 	luaopen_posix_c(lua);
 #endif
-	dolibrary(lua,"posix");
-#endif
 
 	lua_newtable(lua);
 	int methodtable = lua_gettop(lua);