The OP’s advice to avoid macros in the library’s API is a good one. Please read my previous comments, it begins with “Some of these recommendations are awesome”

The OP’s advice to avoid macros in the library’s API is a good one. Please read my previous comments, it begins with “Some of these recommendations are awesome”. BTW, you can disable these windows.h macros by defining NOMINMAX. I usually do, because I prefer min/max from <algorithm>; in some edge cases std::min / std::max can be twice as fast because compiler guarantees to compute arguments exactly once.