diff --git a/src/tools/msvc.jam b/src/tools/msvc.jam
index 6375b75b0..afe572a8a 100644
--- a/src/tools/msvc.jam
+++ b/src/tools/msvc.jam
@@ -443,7 +443,9 @@ generators.register-linker msvc.link.dll : OBJ SEARCHED_LIB STATIC_LIB IMPORT_LI
 generators.register-archiver msvc.archive : OBJ : STATIC_LIB : <toolset>msvc ;
 generators.register-c-compiler msvc.compile.c++ : CPP : OBJ : <toolset>msvc ;
 generators.register-c-compiler msvc.compile.c : C : OBJ : <toolset>msvc ;
-generators.register-standard msvc.compile.rc : RC : OBJ(%_res) : <toolset>msvc ;
+
+# Using 'register-c-compiler' adds the build directory to INCLUDES
+generators.register-c-compiler msvc.compile.rc : RC : OBJ(%_res) : <toolset>msvc ;
 generators.override msvc.compile.rc : rc.resource-compile ;
 generators.register-standard msvc.compile.asm : ASM : OBJ : <toolset>msvc ;
 
diff --git a/src/tools/rc.jam b/src/tools/rc.jam
index 38d2686ce..9c801e388 100644
--- a/src/tools/rc.jam
+++ b/src/tools/rc.jam
@@ -58,7 +58,9 @@ actions quietly create-empty-object
 # The reason we generate OBJ and not RES, is that gcc does not
 # seem to like RES files, but works OK with OBJ.
 # See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.build/5643/
-generators.register-standard rc.resource-compile : RC : OBJ(%_res) ;
+#
+# Using 'register-c-compiler' adds the build directory to INCLUDES
+generators.register-c-compiler rc.resource-compile : RC : OBJ(%_res) ;
 
 # Register scanner for resources
 class res-scanner : scanner