-// When using configure, the path must be "zlib.h" I don't know
-// what other ports (wxMac, wxMotif without configure) need here.
-// If we are building with ./configure, we trust the zlib path is
-// given as a -I option.
-#if defined(__WXMSW__) && !defined(HAVE_CONFIG_H)
- #include "..\zlib\zlib.h"
+// normally, the compiler options should contain -I../zlib, but it is
+// apparently not the case for all MSW makefiles and so, unless we use
+// configure (which defines __WX_SETUP_H__) or it is explicitly overridden by
+// the user (who can define wxUSE_ZLIB_H_IN_PATH), we hardcode the path here
+#if defined(__WXMSW__) && !defined(__WX_SETUP_H__) && !defined(wxUSE_ZLIB_H_IN_PATH)
+ #include "../zlib/zlib.h"