diff --git a/tesseract_common/include/tesseract_common/resource_locator.h b/tesseract_common/include/tesseract_common/resource_locator.h
index 10122e055ec..3189e267dee 100644
--- a/tesseract_common/include/tesseract_common/resource_locator.h
+++ b/tesseract_common/include/tesseract_common/resource_locator.h
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ TESSERACT_COMMON_IGNORE_WARNINGS_PUSH
 #include <boost/serialization/access.hpp>
 #include <functional>
 #include <memory>
+#include <string>
 TESSERACT_COMMON_IGNORE_WARNINGS_POP
 
 namespace tesseract_common