Ancient .IDE project having errors in Visual Studio 2015 system files - c++

I'm resurrecting an ancient project, one developed when the Visual Studio project type was "IDE". I've got everything building, except for cmath errors like:
'acoshl': ambiguous call to overloaded function
in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\include\cmath.
I have no references to cmath or math.h in my code, and nothing tells me why there is a conflict with functions never referenced. Obviously, I don't want to edit system files. :)

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