Cannot re-export name that is not defined in the module ‘promise.d.ts’

TypeScript seems to have caused problems on the first line of promise.d.ts complaining that Promise cannot be exported as it is not defined in this file:
ERROR in [default] /path/to/project/node_modules/angular2/src/facade/promise.d.ts:1:9
Cannot re-export name that is not defined in the module.


I solved this problem by adding following line of code at line number 1 in /path/to/project/node_modules/angular2/src/facade/promise.d.ts
declare var Promise: PromiseConstructor;