diff --git a/cpp/include/kvikio/shim/libcurl.hpp b/cpp/include/kvikio/shim/libcurl.hpp
index 653195df7e..ccff6d81b8 100644
--- a/cpp/include/kvikio/shim/libcurl.hpp
+++ b/cpp/include/kvikio/shim/libcurl.hpp
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
   "cannot include the remote IO API, please build KvikIO with libcurl (-DKvikIO_REMOTE_SUPPORT=ON)"
 #endif
 
-#include <curl/curl.h>
 #include <functional>
 #include <memory>
 #include <mutex>
@@ -28,6 +27,8 @@
 #include <string>
 #include <vector>
 
+#include <curl/curl.h>
+
 namespace kvikio {
 
 /**