-// we need to determine whether we have the declarations for the function in
-// debughlp.dll version 5.81 (at least) and we check for DBHLPAPI to test this
-//
-// reasons:
-// - VC6 version of imagehlp.h doesn't define it
-// - VC7 one does
-// - testing for compiler version doesn't work as you can install and use
-// the new SDK headers with VC6
-//
-// in any case, the user may override by defining wxUSE_DBGHELP himself
+// All known versions of imagehlp.h define API_VERSION_NUMBER but it's not
+// documented, so deal with the possibility that it's not defined just in case.
+#ifndef API_VERSION_NUMBER
+ #define API_VERSION_NUMBER 0
+#endif
+
+// wxUSE_DBGHELP is a bit special as it is not defined in wx/setup.h and we try
+// to auto-detect whether we should be using debug help API or not ourselves
+// below. However if the auto-detection fails, you can always predefine it as 0
+// to avoid even trying.