diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pytorch-tokenizers/add-missing-cstdint-sentencepiece.patch b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pytorch-tokenizers/add-missing-cstdint-sentencepiece.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..95556a83da45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pytorch-tokenizers/add-missing-cstdint-sentencepiece.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Submodule third-party/sentencepiece contains modified content
+diff --git a/third-party/sentencepiece/src/sentencepiece_processor.h b/third-party/sentencepiece/src/sentencepiece_processor.h
+index dd3f092..553fbff 100644
+--- a/third-party/sentencepiece/src/sentencepiece_processor.h
++++ b/third-party/sentencepiece/src/sentencepiece_processor.h
+@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
+ #define SENTENCEPIECE_PROCESSOR_H_
+ 
+ #include <cstring>
++#include <cstdint>
+ #include <memory>
+ #include <string>
+ #include <string_view>
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pytorch-tokenizers/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pytorch-tokenizers/default.nix
index e87b613b887a..10f2835577f5 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pytorch-tokenizers/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pytorch-tokenizers/default.nix
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     (replaceVars ./dont-fetch-pybind11.patch {
       pybind11 = pybind11-src;
     })
+    # error: ‘uint32_t’ does not name a type
+    ./add-missing-cstdint-sentencepiece.patch
   ];
 
   postPatch = ''