Tutorial One: Install and Running OpenCV 2.2

For this first tutorial I am going to walk through the steps of installing OpenCV 2.2. I found that OpenCV 2.2 was just as useful for the purposes of this tutorial and seems to be more user-friendly during the installation process. If you would like to install OpenCV 2.3 on your own it does have backwards capabilities and will work fine. It may be obvious but this tutorial is intended installation with both Windows 7 and Visual Studio Professional 2010.

Step One: Download and Install Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2010 (Its Free J).

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· Register with your Biola email address.

· Download and install Visual Studio Professional 2010.

Step Two: Download the OpenCV 2.2 win-exe package

· Visit http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/files/opencv-win/2.2/

· Download “OpenCV-2.2.0-win32-vs2010.exe”

Step Three: Install the exe

· Make sure you install it to the System PATH for ALL users.

· Install the file to a simple and easy to find location (you will need it later). I installed it to C:\OpenCV2.2 wherever you install it make sure you remember it!

Step Four: Link the OpenCV library and includes into a Visual Studio Solution.

· Open Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2010

· Create a new solution, name it something fun J I named mine TEMPLATE_OPENCV_2-2

· Hit ALT+F7 to open the options menu. Open Configuration Properties, then VC++ Directories

o Under Include Directories, click edit and enter “C:\OpenCV2.2\include\opencv” and “C:\OpenCV2.2\include” -- Replace “C:\OpenCV2.2” with the path your files are stored.

o Under Library Directories, click edit and enter “C:\OpenCV2.2\lib”, -- Replace “C:\OpenCV2.2” with the path your files are stored.

· Open Linker, then Input

o Under Additional Dependencies add “C:\OpenCV2.2\lib\opencv_core220d.lib; C:\OpenCV2.2\lib\opencv_highgui220d.lib; C:\OpenCV2.2\lib\opencv_video220d.lib; C:\OpenCV2.2\lib\opencv_ml220d.lib; C:\OpenCV2.2\lib\opencv_legacy220d.lib; C:\OpenCV2.2\lib\opencv_imgproc220d.lib; C:\OpenCV2.2\lib\opencv_calib3d220d.lib; C:\OpenCV2.2\lib\opencv_objdetect220d.lib”

-- Replace “C:\OpenCV2.2” with the path your files are stored.

o Open C/C++, then Code Generation

o Change Runtime Library to Multi-threaded Debug DLL (/MDd)

Step Five: Enjoy having OpenCV 2.2 installed by using this test program! – tutorial_one.cpp, Truck.avi

Read the comments for help, uncomment lines 181-183 to use a webcam.

Note: This installation will only work with this solution unless you repeat step four again in the new solution. So for all the succeeding tutorials use the same solution, just replace the .cpp files! Enjoy!