diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index fdd49e2..36d7e52 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ src/h5/attribs.c -text
 src/h5/attribs.h -text
 src/h5/errorhandling.c -text
 src/h5/errorhandling.h -text
+src/h5/h5_types.h -text
 src/h5/openclose.c -text
 src/h5/openclose.h -text
 src/h5/readwrite.c -text
diff --git a/src/h5/h5_types.h b/src/h5/h5_types.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8cdfc40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/h5/h5_types.h
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+#ifndef __H5_TYPES_H
+#define __H5_TYPES_H
+
+#ifdef   WIN32
+typedef __int64			int64_t;
+#endif /* WIN32 */
+
+typedef int64_t			h5_int64_t;
+typedef	h5_int64_t		h5_int_t;
+typedef	h5_int64_t		h5part_int64_t;
+typedef int32_t			h5_id_t;
+typedef int32_t			h5_size_t;	/* size in number of elements */
+
+typedef double			h5_float64_t;
+typedef	h5_float64_t		h5_float_t;
+typedef	h5_float64_t		h5part_float64_t;
+
+typedef h5_int64_t (*h5_error_handler)( const char*, const h5_int64_t, const char*,...)
+#ifdef __GNUC__
+__attribute__ ((format (printf, 3, 4)))
+#endif
+ ;
+
+typedef h5_error_handler	h5part_error_handler;
+
+#ifndef PARALLEL_IO
+typedef unsigned long		MPI_Comm;
+#endif
+
+
+#endif