'min (& max) not a member of std' errors when building OpenCV 2.4.6 on Windows 8 for Visual Studio 2012

Question

I\'m trying to build OpenCV 2.4.6 on Windows 8 in Visual Studio 2012. Having downloaded the source from https://github.com/Itseez/opencv I generate (leaving the default conf

Answer 1

I was stumbling on the same issue while compiling OpenEXR. Then I found the solution googling for openexr std::min.

There is an issue opened on OpenCV where it says that, when using VS2013 Preview, you must add the line #include in the file where you're using std::min and std::max.

I put that line into the files where these methods are called and voilà! Compilation succeeded.