diff --git a/src/libstrongswan/utils/windows.h b/src/libstrongswan/utils/windows.h
index a06a89ebf..5cf4a669b 100644
--- a/src/libstrongswan/utils/windows.h
+++ b/src/libstrongswan/utils/windows.h
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #include <direct.h>
 #include <inttypes.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
 
 /* undef Windows variants evaluating values more than once */
 #undef min