'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

You probably need to #define NOMINMAX. Try putting it before any other includes.
If that helps, then put in the you project's preprocessor defines.

There's lots of info about this, just search for NOMINMAX. Here's one post about it.