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ACCESS MASK AMBIGUOUS SYMBOL

asked 2015-05-17 15:55:12 -0600

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I am trying to upgrade my opencv 2.4.11 to opencv 3.0rc1 and i get the following error:

Error   1   error C2872: 'ACCESS_MASK' : ambiguous symbol   C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Include\um\winnt.h  9084

Error 2 error C2872: 'ACCESS_MASK' : ambiguous symbol C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Include\um\winnt.h 9142 Error 3 error C2872: 'ACCESS_MASK' : ambiguous symbol C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Include\um\winnt.h 9143 Error 4 error C2872: 'ACCESS_MASK' : ambiguous symbol C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Include\um\winnt.h 9144

Please can someone help with this.

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I am getting the same error. Did you resolve this?

bear35645 gravatar imagebear35645 ( 2015-06-04 08:21:11 -0600 )edit

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answered 2015-06-04 08:29:02 -0600

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I found the answer some place else. The problem is caused by putting "using namespace cv;" in a header. If you need to define a class member that is part of the cv namespace in the header, use cv:: in front of the class name and move the using namespace to your cpp file.

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You're right!. From the complete answerThis was a problem with having using namespace cv in a header, and then including windows headers.

using namespace ... in a header should be discouraged but a workaround for ACCESS_MASK issue could be to include Windows.h stuffs before of OpenCV.

pklab gravatar imagepklab ( 2015-12-19 10:07:27 -0600 )edit

Thank you. This helped.

gosk gravatar imagegosk ( 2017-06-27 07:31:57 -0600 )edit

I know this is old, but adding this in case anyone else gets stuck... Moving the using namespace cv; to the cpp files did not work for me. What did work is making sure that Windows.h ( or in my case, another third party header that included it), when included, is above the cv includes..

antithing gravatar imageantithing ( 2018-07-21 11:24:49 -0600 )edit
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answered 2018-01-14 06:02:19 -0600

I just moved opencv includes and using namespace cv next to all includes and before functions and main and its solved

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Thanks, it helped. I am using openframeworks, hence moving ofxmain.h to top sorted the issue.

ajonnet gravatar imageajonnet ( 2018-07-14 01:43:24 -0600 )edit
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answered 2015-06-04 08:44:31 -0600

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A temporary fix is the change all instance in winn.h that has ACCESS_MASK to FIX_ME_ACCESS_MASK. This has worked fine for me so far. The only hassle is if any of your project references winn.h you gets bugs. other than that you are good to go.

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