diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt
index 7fd8d7de54..e6b20ccd1c 100644
--- a/docs/changes.txt
+++ b/docs/changes.txt
@@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ wxMSW:
 - Return correct OS version under Windows 8.1 and later.
 - Fix crash in wxD2DContext when using non-MSVC compiler (iwbnwif).
 - Notify shell about the changes done by wxMimeTypesManager (Maarten Bent).
+- Fix wxPrintf() and friends when using MinGW with ANSI stdio option.
 
 wxOSX/Cocoa:
 
diff --git a/src/common/strvararg.cpp b/src/common/strvararg.cpp
index 0196e06ee9..d4550dbfd1 100644
--- a/src/common/strvararg.cpp
+++ b/src/common/strvararg.cpp
@@ -410,7 +410,13 @@ private:
     size_t m_nCopied;
 };
 
-#if defined(__WINDOWS__) && !defined(__CYGWIN__)
+// Distinguish between the traditional Windows (and MSVC) behaviour and Cygwin
+// (which is always Unix-like) and MinGW which can use either depending on the
+// "ANSI stdio" option value (which is normally set to either 0 or 1, but test
+// for it in a way which works even if it's not defined at all, just in case).
+#if defined(__WINDOWS__) && \
+    !defined(__CYGWIN__) && \
+    (!defined(__MINGW32__) || (__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO +0 == 0))
 
 // on Windows, we should use %s and %c regardless of the build:
 class wxPrintfFormatConverterWchar : public wxFormatConverterBase<wchar_t>