Uint won't compile (Common.h)

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This must be simple, but googling doesn’t get me close to a solution.
I can’t get uint to compile. Error says unknown type name ‘uint’; did you mean ‘int’?.
This happens with any project that has common.h file with uint in it. Xcode 16, macOS Sequoia 15.1.1.
I tried “clean project”.
Irritating!

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Found the answer here. replace uint with uint32_t, or, at the top of the file type:
typedef uint32_t uint;

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I’m glad you found the answer. The changes to code should be pinned here but I’m not sure it sticks to the top of the forum.

There’s one other change from chapter 23: