diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 1f3d0fdd4b..c02dbcc8b2 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -2201,6 +2201,7 @@ SYSTEM_FUNCS="
     GetProcessMemoryInfo
     GetProcessTimes
     getrusage
+    GetStdHandle
     GetSystemTimeAsFileTime
     gettimeofday
     glob
@@ -6040,6 +6041,7 @@ check_func_headers sys/stat.h lstat
 check_func_headers windows.h GetModuleHandle
 check_func_headers windows.h GetProcessAffinityMask
 check_func_headers windows.h GetProcessTimes
+check_func_headers windows.h GetStdHandle
 check_func_headers windows.h GetSystemTimeAsFileTime
 check_func_headers windows.h LoadLibrary
 check_func_headers windows.h MapViewOfFile
diff --git a/libavutil/log.c b/libavutil/log.c
index c3e65f0470..0a7b169bc0 100644
--- a/libavutil/log.c
+++ b/libavutil/log.c
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ static int av_log_level = AV_LOG_INFO;
 static int flags;
 
 #define NB_LEVELS 8
-#if defined(_WIN32) && HAVE_SETCONSOLETEXTATTRIBUTE
+#if defined(_WIN32) && HAVE_SETCONSOLETEXTATTRIBUTE && HAVE_GETSTDHANDLE
 #include <windows.h>
 static const uint8_t color[16 + AV_CLASS_CATEGORY_NB] = {
     [AV_LOG_PANIC  /8] = 12,
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ static int use_color = -1;
 
 static void check_color_terminal(void)
 {
-#if defined(_WIN32) && HAVE_SETCONSOLETEXTATTRIBUTE
+#if defined(_WIN32) && HAVE_SETCONSOLETEXTATTRIBUTE && HAVE_GETSTDHANDLE
     CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO con_info;
     con = GetStdHandle(STD_ERROR_HANDLE);
     use_color = (con != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) && !getenv("NO_COLOR") &&
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ static void colored_fputs(int level, int tint, const char *str)
     if (level == AV_LOG_INFO/8) local_use_color = 0;
     else                        local_use_color = use_color;
 
-#if defined(_WIN32) && HAVE_SETCONSOLETEXTATTRIBUTE
+#if defined(_WIN32) && HAVE_SETCONSOLETEXTATTRIBUTE && HAVE_GETSTDHANDLE
     if (local_use_color)
         SetConsoleTextAttribute(con, background | color[level]);
     fputs(str, stderr);