There are some mixed implicitly/explicitly type conversion between
scalar and vector. Although the spec allows those conversion, I prefer
to make them consistent and use explicitly all the cases.
Signed-off-by: Zhigang Gong <zhigang.gong@intel.com>

_MSC_VER -> defined _MSC_VER. Fixes building with MinGW.
Similar to fbc91c5e.

check that input images was loaded correctly

(master branch was fixed before, no need to merge this to master!)
- disable openexr (numerous undefined std::min & std::max)
- workaround for two compilator bugs