diff --git a/ext/zlib/config.w32 b/ext/zlib/config.w32
index 72e0ac06ab8..5159696fd16 100644
--- a/ext/zlib/config.w32
+++ b/ext/zlib/config.w32
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ ARG_ENABLE("zlib", "ZLIB support", "yes");
 if (PHP_ZLIB == "yes") {
 	EXTENSION("zlib", "zlib.c zlib_fopen_wrapper.c", null, "/D ZLIB_EXPORTS");
 	AC_DEFINE("HAVE_ZLIB", 1, "Tokenizer support");
-	CHECK_LIB("zlib_a;zlib.lib", "zlib", "..\\zlib;" + php_usual_lib_suspects);
+	CHECK_LIB("zlib.lib", "zlib", "..\\zlib;" + php_usual_lib_suspects);
 	CHECK_HEADER_ADD_INCLUDE("zlib.h", "CFLAGS", "..\\zlib;" + php_usual_include_suspects);
 }