diff --git a/include/wx/meta/movable.h b/include/wx/meta/movable.h
index ada53540e9..cb207abc39 100644
--- a/include/wx/meta/movable.h
+++ b/include/wx/meta/movable.h
@@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ WX_DECLARE_TYPE_MOVABLE(wxLongLong_t)
 WX_DECLARE_TYPE_MOVABLE(wxULongLong_t)
 #endif
 
+// Visual C++ 6.0 can't compile partial template specializations and as this is
+// only an optimization, we can live with pointers not being recognized as
+// movable types under VC6
+#ifndef __VISUALC6__
+
 // pointers are movable:
 template<typename T>
 struct wxIsMovable<T*>
@@ -65,6 +70,8 @@ struct wxIsMovable<const T*>
     enum { value = true };
 };
 
+#endif // !__VISUALC6__
+
 // Our implementation of wxString is written in such way that it's safe to move
 // it around. OTOH, we don't know anything about std::string.
 // (NB: we don't put this into string.h and choose to include wx/string.h from