--- a/mercurial/util.h	Tue Sep 18 23:32:42 2012 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/util.h	Tue Sep 18 15:42:19 2012 -0700
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@
 #ifdef _MSC_VER
 /* msvc 6.0 has problems */
 #define inline __inline
+typedef unsigned char uint8_t;
 typedef unsigned long uint32_t;
 typedef unsigned __int64 uint64_t;
 #else