diff --git a/contrib/win32/win32compat/inc/sys/stat.h b/contrib/win32/win32compat/inc/sys/stat.h
index e4a8954..b8a2521 100644
--- a/contrib/win32/win32compat/inc/sys/stat.h
+++ b/contrib/win32/win32compat/inc/sys/stat.h
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 #define lstat w32_stat
 #define mkdir w32_mkdir
 #define chdir w32_chdir
+#define getcwd w32_getcwd
 
 struct w32_stat {
 	dev_t     st_dev;     /* ID of device containing file */
diff --git a/contrib/win32/win32compat/inc/w32posix.h b/contrib/win32/win32compat/inc/w32posix.h
index c98dfbb..3e21515 100644
--- a/contrib/win32/win32compat/inc/w32posix.h
+++ b/contrib/win32/win32compat/inc/w32posix.h
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ int w32_isatty(int fd);
 FILE* w32_fdopen(int fd, const char *mode);
 int w32_mkdir(const char *pathname, unsigned short mode);
 int w32_chdir(const char *dirname);
+char *w32_getcwd(char *buffer, int maxlen);
 
 /*common i/o*/
 #define fcntl(a,b,...)		w32_fcntl((a), (b),  __VA_ARGS__)
diff --git a/contrib/win32/win32compat/w32fd.c b/contrib/win32/win32compat/w32fd.c
index ce16e04..ec0e4f4 100644
--- a/contrib/win32/win32compat/w32fd.c
+++ b/contrib/win32/win32compat/w32fd.c
@@ -437,6 +437,19 @@ int w32_chdir(const char *dirname) {
     return 0;
 }
 
+char *w32_getcwd(char *buffer, int maxlen) {
+    wchar_t wdirname[MAX_PATH];
+    int needed;
+
+    wchar_t *wpwd = _wgetcwd(wdirname, MAX_PATH);
+
+    if ((needed = WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, WC_ERR_INVALID_CHARS, wdirname, -1, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL)) == 0 ||
+        WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, WC_ERR_INVALID_CHARS, wdirname, -1, buffer, needed, NULL, NULL) != needed)
+            fatal("failed to covert input arguments");
+
+    return buffer;
+}
+
 int
 w32_isatty(int fd) {
 	struct w32_io* pio;
diff --git a/sftp.c b/sftp.c
index 19dbdc0..43ad371 100644
--- a/sftp.c
+++ b/sftp.c
@@ -2357,8 +2357,10 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
 	addargs(&args, "\"-oClearAllForwardings yes\"");
 
 	ll = SYSLOG_LEVEL_INFO;
-	infile = stdin;
-    _setmode(_fileno(infile), O_U16TEXT);
+#ifdef WINDOWS
+    _setmode(_fileno(stdin), O_U16TEXT);
+#endif
+    infile = stdin;
 
 	while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv,
 	    "1246afhpqrvCc:D:i:l:o:s:S:b:B:F:P:R:")) != -1) {