diff --git a/src/include/types.h b/src/include/types.h
index cbdb67a0ca..8724d4b01f 100644
--- a/src/include/types.h
+++ b/src/include/types.h
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 /* types.h is supposed to provide the standard headers defined in here: */
 #include <commonlib/bsd/cb_err.h>
+#include <limits.h>
 #include <stdbool.h>
 #include <stdint.h>
 #include <stddef.h>