diff --git a/src/uucore/Cargo.toml b/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
index 65c4d6a01..43866d864 100644
--- a/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ authors = []
 [dependencies]
 libc = "*"
 time = "*"
+winapi = "*"
 
 [lib]
 path = "lib.rs"
diff --git a/src/uucore/fs.rs b/src/uucore/fs.rs
index 660086202..f875f679b 100644
--- a/src/uucore/fs.rs
+++ b/src/uucore/fs.rs
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@
 // be backported to stable (<= 1.1). This will likely be dropped
 // when the path trait stabilizes.
 
-use ::libc;
+#[cfg(unix)]
+use super::libc;
 use std::env;
 use std::fs;
 use std::io::{Error, ErrorKind, Result};
diff --git a/src/uucore/lib.rs b/src/uucore/lib.rs
index 17fd1071f..f5788e8d6 100644
--- a/src/uucore/lib.rs
+++ b/src/uucore/lib.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 extern crate libc;
 extern crate time;
+#[cfg(windows)] extern crate winapi;
 
 #[macro_use]
 mod macros;