diff --git a/lib/multi.h b/lib/multi.h
index 7c514e67d8..ef84d6a1cb 100644
--- a/lib/multi.h
+++ b/lib/multi.h
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@
  * $Id$
  ***************************************************************************/
 
+ /* This file shadows for <curl/multi.h> in some compilers
+ */
+#include <curl/multi.h>
+
 /*
  * Prototypes for library-wide functions provided by multi.c
  */
diff --git a/lib/strerror.c b/lib/strerror.c
index ae618c6e4b..f07e1df479 100644
--- a/lib/strerror.c
+++ b/lib/strerror.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 #include <idna.h>
 #endif
 
+#include "multi.h"
 #include "strerror.h"
 
 #define _MPRINTF_REPLACE /* use our functions only */