diff --git a/cmake/templates/vpConfig.h.in b/cmake/templates/vpConfig.h.in
index 06022b5d0e..dd4643bae9 100644
--- a/cmake/templates/vpConfig.h.in
+++ b/cmake/templates/vpConfig.h.in
@@ -613,7 +613,9 @@ namespace vp = VISP_NAMESPACE_NAME;
 // See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12530406/is-gcc-4-8-or-earlier-buggy-about-regular-expressions
 // Calling std::regex lead to a segfault on centos 7.2 that has g++ (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-11)
 #include <regex>
-#if __cplusplus >= 201103L &&                             \
+#if defined(WINRT) || defined(WIN32)
+#define VISP_HAVE_WORKING_REGEX
+#elif __cplusplus >= 201103L &&                           \
     (!defined(__GLIBCXX__) || (__cplusplus >= 201402L) || \
         (defined(_GLIBCXX_REGEX_DFS_QUANTIFIERS_LIMIT) || \
          defined(_GLIBCXX_REGEX_STATE_LIMIT)           || \