diff --git a/src/common/kiwix/xapianIndexer.cpp b/src/common/kiwix/xapianIndexer.cpp
index 9ce6f4add..9272d4b2b 100644
--- a/src/common/kiwix/xapianIndexer.cpp
+++ b/src/common/kiwix/xapianIndexer.cpp
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ namespace kiwix {
 
     /* Insert the stopwords */
     if (!this->stopWords.empty()) {
-      typename std::vector<std::string>::iterator it = this->stopWords.begin();
+      std::vector<std::string>::iterator it = this->stopWords.begin();
       for( ; it != this->stopWords.end(); ++it) {
 	this->stopper.add(*it);
       }