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 namespace std" in the IlmImf module, and opencv_features2d doesn't compile with the following error:

opencv\modules\core\include\opencv2/core/core.hpp(4512): fatal error C1075: end of file found before the left brace '{' at '......\modules\features2d\src\features2d_init.cpp(187)' was matched

Since the latest CMake UI doesn't yet support building with 2013 (at least from the UI and I'm a noob), my process was configuring CMake for 2012, and then opening the generated solution with 2013 and upgrading the compiler to vc12.

I was able to get past the min/max errors by adding header includes for in the 'offending' files, but I am stumped by the full error I posted above.

Thanks

Update:

The accepted answer provides what is necessary to compile OpenCV in 32-bit debug and release, and 64-bit debug, but now the compiler fails to compile 64-bit release due to an internal compiler error. This is likely the compiler's fault at this point, but the answer is still solves many problems.

Update 2: So the 64-bit issue turned out to be a bug in the auto-vectorizer. Here is the corresponding workaround.

Hi, thanks for the great bug report. I confirm this is a bug in the compiler optimizer. We will fix it in a future release.

If you need a source code workaround, please turn the vectorizer off on the loop inside computeOrbDescriptor:

#pragma loop(no_vector)

for (int i = 0; i < dsize; ++i)

{

   **...**

That lets me build orb.cpp & stardetector.cpp.

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Answer 1

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 2

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.

Answer 3

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