diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 8fb06d0..ccabe9d 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ trace = []
 
 [dependencies]
 time = "~0.1.0"
-bitflags = "~0.1"
+bitflags = "0.7"
 libc = "~0.2"
 clippy = {version = "~0.0.58", optional = true}
 chrono = { version = "~0.2", optional = true }
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 466ac78..0f69a4c 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ bitflags! {
     #[doc = "Flags for opening SQLite database connections."]
     #[doc = "See [sqlite3_open_v2](http://www.sqlite.org/c3ref/open.html) for details."]
     #[repr(C)]
-    flags OpenFlags: c_int {
+    pub flags OpenFlags: ::libc::c_int {
         const SQLITE_OPEN_READ_ONLY     = 0x00000001,
         const SQLITE_OPEN_READ_WRITE    = 0x00000002,
         const SQLITE_OPEN_CREATE        = 0x00000004,