diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 14ac6739e2..7ce1b170c1 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Fri Jun 25 01:58:01 2004  NAKAMURA Usaku  <usa@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* win32/setup.mak: remove RUBY_EXTERN lines when including version.h.
+	  [ruby-talk:104456]
+
 Thu Jun 24 14:23:29 2004  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* io.c (rb_io_fread): return already read data when system call is
diff --git a/win32/setup.mak b/win32/setup.mak
index 30132e087d..fe7f2b6b6c 100644
--- a/win32/setup.mak
+++ b/win32/setup.mak
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ EXTSTATIC = $(EXTSTATIC)
 RDOCTARGET = $(RDOCTARGET)
 !endif
 <<
-	@cl -nologo -EP -I$(srcdir) <<"Creating $(MAKEFILE)" >> $(MAKEFILE)
+	@cl -nologo -EP -I$(srcdir) -DRUBY_EXTERN="//" <<"Creating $(MAKEFILE)" >> $(MAKEFILE)
 #include "version.h"
 MAJOR = RUBY_VERSION_MAJOR
 MINOR = RUBY_VERSION_MINOR