diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 521d8f4fb4..34efe125cb 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@
 /tags
 /TAGS
 /cscope*
+*.hcc
 *.obj
 *.lib
 *.res
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index f879697ea3..581cc617e3 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1872,7 +1872,7 @@ ifndef V
 	QUIET_MSGFMT   = @echo '   ' MSGFMT $@;
 	QUIET_GCOV     = @echo '   ' GCOV $@;
 	QUIET_SP       = @echo '   ' SP $<;
-	QUIET_HDR      = @echo '   ' HDR $<;
+	QUIET_HDR      = @echo '   ' HDR $(<:hcc=h);
 	QUIET_RC       = @echo '   ' RC $@;
 	QUIET_SUBDIR0  = +@subdir=
 	QUIET_SUBDIR1  = ;$(NO_SUBDIR) echo '   ' SUBDIR $$subdir; \
@@ -2771,9 +2771,14 @@ ifndef GCRYPT_SHA256
 endif
 CHK_HDRS = $(filter-out $(EXCEPT_HDRS),$(patsubst ./%,%,$(LIB_H)))
 HCO = $(patsubst %.h,%.hco,$(CHK_HDRS))
+HCC = $(HCO:hco=hcc)
 
-$(HCO): %.hco: %.h FORCE
-	$(QUIET_HDR)$(CC) -include git-compat-util.h -I. -o /dev/null -c -xc $<
+%.hcc: %.h
+	@echo '#include "git-compat-util.h"' >$@
+	@echo '#include "$<"' >>$@
+
+$(HCO): %.hco: %.hcc FORCE
+	$(QUIET_HDR)$(CC) $(ALL_CFLAGS) -o /dev/null -c -xc $<
 
 .PHONY: hdr-check $(HCO)
 hdr-check: $(HCO)
@@ -3082,6 +3087,7 @@ clean: profile-clean coverage-clean cocciclean
 	$(RM) $(ALL_PROGRAMS) $(SCRIPT_LIB) $(BUILT_INS) git$X
 	$(RM) $(TEST_PROGRAMS)
 	$(RM) $(FUZZ_PROGRAMS)
+	$(RM) $(HCC)
 	$(RM) -r bin-wrappers $(dep_dirs)
 	$(RM) -r po/build/
 	$(RM) *.pyc *.pyo */*.pyc */*.pyo command-list.h $(ETAGS_TARGET) tags cscope*