diff --git a/packages/profiling-node/binding.gyp b/packages/profiling-node/binding.gyp
index fd2322db4e94..1c1aad075e39 100644
--- a/packages/profiling-node/binding.gyp
+++ b/packages/profiling-node/binding.gyp
@@ -6,5 +6,15 @@
       # Silence gcc8 deprecation warning https://github.com/nodejs/nan/issues/807#issuecomment-455750192
       "cflags": ["-Wno-cast-function-type"]
     },
-  ]
+  ],
+  'conditions': [
+    [ 'OS=="win"', {
+      'defines': [
+        # Stop <windows.h> from defining macros that conflict with
+        # std::min() and std::max().  We don't use <windows.h> (much)
+        # but we still inherit it from uv.h.
+        'NOMINMAX',
+      ]
+    }],
+  ],
 }
diff --git a/packages/profiling-node/bindings/cpu_profiler.cc b/packages/profiling-node/bindings/cpu_profiler.cc
index f269990f425b..64a82ba61910 100644
--- a/packages/profiling-node/bindings/cpu_profiler.cc
+++ b/packages/profiling-node/bindings/cpu_profiler.cc
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+#ifndef NOMINMAX
+#define NOMINMAX
+#endif
 
 #include <assert.h>
 #include <math.h>