+#if defined(__MINGW32__)
+// We want the versions of stat/fstat/lseek that use 64-bit offsets,
+// and you have to ask for those explicitly. Unfortunately there
+// doesn't seem to be a 64-bit version of truncate/ftruncate, so while
+// hFileSize and hSeek will work with large files, hSetFileSize will not.
+#define stat(file,buf) _stati64(file,buf)
+#define fstat(fd,buf) _fstati64(fd,buf)
+typedef struct _stati64 struct_stat;
+typedef off64_t stsize_t;
+#else
+typedef struct stat struct_stat;
+typedef off_t stsize_t;
+#endif
+