diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 95cb39cf4..01c742eeb 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
 
                                   Changelog
 
+Daniel S (22 Feb 2008)
+- Georg Lippitsch made the src/Makefile.vc6 makefile use the same memory model
+  options as the lib/Makefile.vc6 already did.
+
 Daniel S (21 Feb 2008)
 - Zmey Petroff found a crash when libcurl accessed a NULL pointer, which
   happened if you set the connection cache size to 1 and for example failed to
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 5b3ed07c1..378f67c64 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -48,6 +48,6 @@ advice from friends like these:
 
  Michal Marek, Dmitry Kurochkin, Niklas Angebrand, Günter Knauf, Yang Tse,
  Dan Fandrich, Mike Hommey, Pooyan McSporran, Jerome Muffat-Meridol,
- Kaspar Brand, Gautam Kachroo, Zmey Petroff
+ Kaspar Brand, Gautam Kachroo, Zmey Petroff, Georg Lippitsch
 
         Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
diff --git a/src/Makefile.vc6 b/src/Makefile.vc6
index f82e01229..fbcfbf9e8 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.vc6
+++ b/src/Makefile.vc6
@@ -61,13 +61,22 @@ SSL_LFLAGS     = /LIBPATH:"$(OPENSSL_PATH)/out32"
 SSL_IMP_LFLAGS = /LIBPATH:"$(OPENSSL_PATH)/out32dll"
 SSL_LIBS       = libeay32.lib ssleay32.lib gdi32.lib user32.lib advapi32.lib
 
+# Runtime library configuration
+RTLIB   = /MD
+RTLIBD  = /MDd
+
+!IF "$(RTLIBCFG)" == "static"
+RTLIB  = /MT
+RTLIBD = /MTd
+!ENDIF
+
 ## Release
-CCR   = cl.exe /MD /O2 /DNDEBUG
+CCR   = cl.exe $(RTLIB) /O2 /DNDEBUG
 LINKR = link.exe /incremental:no /libpath:"../lib"
 RCR   = rc.exe /dCURLDEBUG=0
 
 ## Debug
-CCD   = cl.exe /MDd /Gm /ZI /Od /D_DEBUG /GZ
+CCD   = cl.exe $(RTLIBD) /Gm /ZI /Od /D_DEBUG /GZ
 LINKD = link.exe /incremental:yes /debug /libpath:"../lib"
 RCD   = rc.exe /dCURLDEBUG=1