diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index c8732122fb5..9247e3beed9 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -137,6 +137,9 @@ Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-10962. Flags for posix_fadvise are not valid in some architectures
     (David Villegas via Colin Patrick McCabe)
 
+    HADOOP-10966. Hadoop Common native compilation broken in windows.
+    (David Villegas via Arpit Agarwal)
+
 Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/native/src/org/apache/hadoop/io/nativeio/NativeIO.c b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/native/src/org/apache/hadoop/io/nativeio/NativeIO.c
index 45fa7025f42..eb44a515516 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/native/src/org/apache/hadoop/io/nativeio/NativeIO.c
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/native/src/org/apache/hadoop/io/nativeio/NativeIO.c
@@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ static void nioe_deinit(JNIEnv *env) {
  * If the value is not known, return the argument unchanged.
  */
 static int map_fadvise_flag(jint flag) {
+#ifdef HAVE_POSIX_FADVISE
   switch(flag) {
     case org_apache_hadoop_io_nativeio_NativeIO_POSIX_POSIX_FADV_NORMAL:
       return POSIX_FADV_NORMAL;
@@ -198,6 +199,9 @@ static int map_fadvise_flag(jint flag) {
     default:
       return flag;
   }
+#else
+  return flag;
+#endif
 }
 
 /*