#define NOMINMAX using std::min/max

Question

i recently added:

#define NOMINMAX
#include 
#include 

to my main.cpp in order to use

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Answer 1

It's likely that your problem is that you #define NOMINMAX after you #include "windows.h". It is important that the #define come first.

The reason is that windows.h (actually I think windef.h, which is included by windows.h) has code similar to this:

#ifndef NOMINMAX
#define min(x,y) ((x) < (y) ? (x) : (y))
#define max(x,y) ((x) > (y) ? (x) : (y))
#endif

So #define NOMINMAX is telling the compiler (or actually the preprocessor) to skip over the definitions of min and max, but it will only apply if you do it before you #include "windows.h".