diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index b435207514..2bed81eaee 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1092,7 +1092,7 @@ check_symbol_exists(setrlimit      "${CURL_INCLUDES}" HAVE_SETRLIMIT)
 
 if(NOT MSVC OR (MSVC_VERSION GREATER_EQUAL 1900))
   # earlier MSVC compilers had faulty snprintf implementations
-  check_symbol_exists(snprintf       "${CURL_INCLUDES}" HAVE_SNPRINTF)
+  check_symbol_exists(snprintf       "stdio.h" HAVE_SNPRINTF)
 endif()
 check_function_exists(mach_absolute_time HAVE_MACH_ABSOLUTE_TIME)
 check_symbol_exists(inet_ntop      "${CURL_INCLUDES}" HAVE_INET_NTOP)