Cannot Compile OpenCV 2.4.5 with VS 2013 RTM

Question

Has anyone had any luck compiling openCV with VS 2013 RTM? I have tried and get a bunch of "min doesn\'t belong to namespace std" "max doesn\'t belong to name

Answer 1

Please see http://code.opencv.org/issues/3273 for more information on the internal compiler error issue.

Answer 2

I've managed to compile OpenCV 2.4.6 on VS2013 RC, but initially it had the same errors as in question. I've opened VS solution and fixed all error in two steps:

1) Replaced (Ctrl+H)

#include \<string\> 

to

#include <algorithm>\n#include <string>

in entire solution (be sure to enable RegExp in replace dialog)

2) In "modules/opencv_features2d/Src/features2d_init.cpp" changed line 184 to:

obj.info()->addParam(obj, "detector", (Ptr<Algorithm>&) obj.detector);

(search for "GridAdaptedFeatureDetector" in this file for other OpenCV versions)

Answer 3

For the first issue:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2013/06/28/c-11-14-stl-features-fixes-and-breaking-changes-in-vs-2013.aspx

It is explicitly called out:

• You must #include <algorithm> when calling std::min() or std::max().

Before due to the internal implementation of the VC++ libraries <string> would pull in these functions.