diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fc499ddf..bf4f0f95 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+12/12/07 started 7.13.3
+- added "include <cstring>" to VImage.cc to help gcc 4.3
+
 31/10/07 started 7.13.2
 - build cimg on windows fixes
 - various include cleanups, updated man pages
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index ba4ba03c..99726c9f 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
   added -lstdc++ to VIPS_LIBS, but will this work on solaris etc.? maybe have
   a configure option to turn off CImg
 
+  there must be an autoconf macro that finds the stdc++ library name
+
 - test maxpos_avg, quite a few changes
 
 - im_exr2vips can now use c++ api
diff --git a/libsrcCC/VImage.cc b/libsrcCC/VImage.cc
index 5d60829f..63a42e24 100644
--- a/libsrcCC/VImage.cc
+++ b/libsrcCC/VImage.cc
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 #include <vips/intl.h>
 
 #include <cstdlib>
+#include <cstring>
 #include <cstdio>
 
 #include <vips/vips.h>