diff --git a/readline/ChangeLog.gdb b/readline/ChangeLog.gdb
index 982ef7b7107..01b083951ed 100644
--- a/readline/ChangeLog.gdb
+++ b/readline/ChangeLog.gdb
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2019-08-13  Christian Biesinger  <cbiesinger@google.com>
+
+	* colors.c (_rl_print_color_indicator): Remove unnecessary
+	S_ISLNK check to fix compilation on MinGW.
+
 2019-08-12  Tom Tromey  <tom@tromey.com>
 
 	* Imported readline 8.0.
diff --git a/readline/colors.c b/readline/colors.c
index 53758e0e774..81aecfe0c83 100644
--- a/readline/colors.c
+++ b/readline/colors.c
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ _rl_print_color_indicator (const char *f)
 
   if (linkok == -1 && _rl_color_indicator[C_MISSING].string != NULL)
     colored_filetype = C_MISSING;
-  else if (linkok == 0 && S_ISLNK(mode) && _rl_color_indicator[C_ORPHAN].string != NULL)
+  else if (linkok == 0 && _rl_color_indicator[C_ORPHAN].string != NULL)
     colored_filetype = C_ORPHAN;	/* dangling symlink */
   else if(stat_ok != 0)
     {