diff --git a/code/tools/lcc/cpp/unix.c b/code/tools/lcc/cpp/unix.c
index bd879448..3e70b562 100644
--- a/code/tools/lcc/cpp/unix.c
+++ b/code/tools/lcc/cpp/unix.c
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #include <stddef.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
 #include "cpp.h"
 
 extern	int lcc_getopt(int, char *const *, const char *);
@@ -66,7 +67,12 @@ setup(int argc, char **argv)
 			error(FATAL, "Can't open input file %s", fp);
 	}
 	if (optind+1<argc) {
-		int fdo = creat(argv[optind+1], 0666);
+		int fdo;
+#ifdef WIN32
+		fdo = creat(argv[optind+1], _S_IREAD | _S_IWRITE);
+#else
+		fdo = creat(argv[optind+1], 0666);
+#endif
 		if (fdo<0)
 			error(FATAL, "Can't open output file %s", argv[optind+1]);
 		dup2(fdo, 1);