diff --git a/cpp/src/arrow/io/compressed_test.cc b/cpp/src/arrow/io/compressed_test.cc
index c4ed606676810..bd414149d5345 100644
--- a/cpp/src/arrow/io/compressed_test.cc
+++ b/cpp/src/arrow/io/compressed_test.cc
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 #include "arrow/testing/gtest_util.h"
 #include "arrow/testing/util.h"
 #include "arrow/util/compression.h"
+#include "arrow/util/config.h"
 
 namespace arrow {
 namespace io {