Qt Creator crashes when trying to run an OpenCV program. [ntdll.dll crash]

[kashre001]

I have QT Creator 3.2.2 for windows. I am using mingw-x64 with gcc/g++ - 4.9.1 as my compiler/debugger. I used Cmake to build the libraries.

Currently, am trying to run this code :

@#include <core/cvstd.hpp>
#include <core/mat.hpp>
#include <core/types.hpp>
#include <core.hpp>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <highgui.hpp>
#include <imgproc.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <vector>
#include <video/background_segm.hpp>

using namespace cv;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
Mat image = imread("C:\Users\John\Desktop\Random\QtTrySimple\Try\bgm.jpeg");
namedWindow("LOL");
imshow("LOL", image);
}@

But the program crashes with a 'Critical error detected c0000374'. From what I understand this error indicates a memory leak on the heap.

Also, here is the stack when it crashes:
@
0 ntdll!RtlUnhandledExceptionFilter C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll 0x775b40d0
1 ntdll!EtwEnumerateProcessRegGuids C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll 0x775b4746
2 ntdll!RtlQueryProcessLockInformation C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll 0x775b5952
3 ntdll!RtlLogStackBackTrace C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll 0x775b7604
4 ntdll!RtlIsDosDeviceName_U C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll 0x7755dc47 @