diff --git a/src/stdafx.h b/src/stdafx.h
index 123dffa138..b7aefb9f06 100644
--- a/src/stdafx.h
+++ b/src/stdafx.h
@@ -231,6 +231,13 @@
 #		if !defined(FT_EXPORT)
 #			define FT_EXPORT( x )  extern "C"  x CDECL
 #		endif
+#	endif
+
+	/* liblzma from vcpkg (before 5.2.4-2) used to patch lzma.h to define LZMA_API_STATIC for static builds */
+#	if defined(WITH_LIBLZMA)
+#		if !defined(LZMA_API_STATIC)
+#			define LZMA_API_STATIC
+#		endif
 #	endif
 
 	#define strcasecmp stricmp