diff --git a/gunicorn/socketfromfd.py b/gunicorn/socketfromfd.py
index 74f6503d..71b40d3c 100644
--- a/gunicorn/socketfromfd.py
+++ b/gunicorn/socketfromfd.py
@@ -20,10 +20,18 @@ SO_DOMAIN = getattr(socket, 'SO_DOMAIN', 39)
 SO_TYPE = getattr(socket, 'SO_TYPE', 3)
 SO_PROTOCOL = getattr(socket, 'SO_PROTOCOL', 38)
 
-
 _libc_name = find_library('c')
 if _libc_name is not None:
-    libc = ctypes.CDLL(_libc_name, use_errno=True)
+    if sys.platform.startswith("aix"):
+        member = (
+            '(shr_64.o)' if ctypes.sizeof(ctypes.c_voidp) == 8 else '(shr.o)')
+        # 0x00040000 correspondes to RTLD_MEMBER, undefined in Python <= 3.6
+        dlopen_mode = (ctypes.DEFAULT_MODE | 0x00040000 | os.RTLD_NOW)
+        libc = ctypes.CDLL(_libc_name+member,
+                           use_errno=True,
+                           mode=dlopen_mode)
+    else:
+        libc = ctypes.CDLL(_libc_name, use_errno=True)
 else:
     raise OSError('libc not found')
 
@@ -36,6 +44,7 @@ def _errcheck_errno(result, func, arguments):
         raise OSError(errno, os.strerror(errno))
     return arguments
 
+
 if platform.system() == 'SunOS':
     _libc_getsockopt = libc._so_getsockopt
 else:
diff --git a/gunicorn/util.py b/gunicorn/util.py
index 0cf5e751..3c72d9fc 100644
--- a/gunicorn/util.py
+++ b/gunicorn/util.py
@@ -659,9 +659,9 @@ def _findWalk_ldpath(name):
         if _is_elf(f):
             return os.path.basename(f)
         prefix = os.path.join(d, 'lib'+name)
-        for suffix in ['so', 'so.*', '*.so.*']:
+        for suffix in ['so', 'so.*', '*.so.*', 'a']:
             for f in glob('{0}.{1}'.format(prefix, suffix)):
-                if _is_elf(f):
+                if _is_elf(f) or suffix == 'a':
                     return os.path.basename(f)