diff --git a/src/common/libremoteio.h b/src/common/libremoteio.h
--- a/src/common/libremoteio.h
+++ b/src/common/libremoteio.h
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #define _DISTREN_LIBREMOTEIO_H
 
 #include "remoteio.h"
+#include <confuse.h>
 
 /**
   private declarations for remoteio, to be included by options.c and remoteio.c
@@ -49,5 +50,6 @@ struct remoteio_opts
   struct remoteio_server *servers;
 };
 
+int remoteio_config(cfg_t *cfg, struct remoteio_opts *opts);
 
 #endif