I'm wondering how to exclude a specified system header file in VS2010, which makes an ambiguous problem.
In my project, I use an opensource project. In which a cpp file calls
std::something::max()
where the max is a method in something.
However, max is also defined in a system header file "minwindef.h", which in my case lies at \Windows Kits\8.0\shared\minwidef.h
#ifndef max
#define max(a,b) (((a) > (b)) ? (a) : (b))
#endif
I think this is not necessary for my project.
So how do I manually prohibit this file to be included (perhaps recursively)?
You might want to #define NOMINMAX before #includeing any Windows headers.
This is such a common problem that they added this macro to remove the min and max definitions that conflict with the stl versions.
I'll try and dig up some MSDN reference for this.