diff --git a/ServerBench.cpp b/ServerBench.cpp
index 3bb0d4d..96e519a 100644
--- a/ServerBench.cpp
+++ b/ServerBench.cpp
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ std::atomic<int64_t> transactions;
 constexpr int kBaseSearchDepth = 32;
 constexpr int kWindowSize = 10000000;
 
-std::basic_string<uint8_t> numToKey(int64_t num) {
-  std::basic_string<uint8_t> result;
+std::string numToKey(int64_t num) {
+  std::string result;
   result.resize(kBaseSearchDepth + sizeof(int64_t));
   memset(result.data(), 0, kBaseSearchDepth);
   int64_t be = __builtin_bswap64(num);
@@ -45,13 +45,13 @@ void workload(weaselab::ConflictSet *cs) {
       auto pointK = numToKey(pointRv);
       weaselab::ConflictSet::ReadRange reads[] = {
           {
-              {pointK.data(), int(pointK.size())},
+              {(const uint8_t *)pointK.data(), int(pointK.size())},
               {nullptr, 0},
               pointRv,
           },
           {
-              {beginK.data(), int(beginK.size())},
-              {endK.data(), int(endK.size())},
+              {(const uint8_t *)beginK.data(), int(beginK.size())},
+              {(const uint8_t *)endK.data(), int(endK.size())},
               version - 2,
           },
       };
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ void workload(weaselab::ConflictSet *cs) {
     {
       weaselab::ConflictSet::WriteRange w;
       auto k = numToKey(version);
-      w.begin.p = k.data();
+      w.begin.p = (const uint8_t *)k.data();
       w.end.len = 0;
       if (version % (kWindowSize / 2) == 0) {
         for (int l = 0; l <= k.size(); ++l) {
@@ -83,9 +83,9 @@ void workload(weaselab::ConflictSet *cs) {
         int64_t beginN = version - kWindowSize + rand() % kWindowSize;
         auto b = numToKey(beginN);
         auto e = numToKey(beginN + 1000);
-        w.begin.p = b.data();
+        w.begin.p = (const uint8_t *)b.data();
         w.begin.len = b.size();
-        w.end.p = e.data();
+        w.end.p = (const uint8_t *)e.data();
         w.end.len = e.size();
         cs->addWrites(&w, 1, version);
       }