diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c1fedd22f..96c9a397d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2002-03-13  Antoine Leca    <antoine@oriolnet.com>
+
+        * include/freetype/config/ftoption.h: changed the automatic detection
+        of Microsoft C compilers to automatically support 64-bit integers only
+        since revision 9.00 (i.e. >= Visual C++ 2.0)
+
 2002-03-08  Werner Lemberg  <wl@gnu.org>
 
 	* src/base/ftutil.c (FT_Realloc): Use MEM_Set instead of memset.
diff --git a/include/freetype/config/ftconfig.h b/include/freetype/config/ftconfig.h
index 633bf5761..bc4287740 100644
--- a/include/freetype/config/ftconfig.h
+++ b/include/freetype/config/ftconfig.h
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ FT_BEGIN_HEADER
 #define FT_LONG64
 #define FT_INT64  long
 
-#elif defined( _MSC_VER )      /* Visual C++ (and Intel C++) */
+#elif defined( _MSC_VER ) && _MSC_VER >= 900  /* Visual C++ (and Intel C++) */
 
   /* this compiler provides the __int64 type */
 #define FT_LONG64