diff --git a/util-src/encodings.c b/util-src/encodings.c
index 13706a891..5fe2c805e 100644
--- a/util-src/encodings.c
+++ b/util-src/encodings.c
@@ -14,12 +14,10 @@
 
 /***************** BASE64 *****************/
 
-#define uint unsigned int
-
 static const char code[]=
 "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/";
 
-static void base64_encode(luaL_Buffer *b, uint c1, uint c2, uint c3, int n)
+static void base64_encode(luaL_Buffer *b, unsigned int c1, unsigned int c2, unsigned int c3, int n)
 {
 	unsigned long tuple=c3+256UL*(c2+256UL*c1);
 	int i;