OpenCV

Building and Installation in Win32

Building and Installing openCV (with python binding). Official instruction is here

  1. svn checkout (version 2.3, developer version)
  2. cd openCV
  3. makedir build
  4. cd build
  5. cmake-gui
    • configure python.exe path correctly
    • turn off CUDA option
    • do several times of “configure” untill all is OK.
  6. mingw32-make 2>&1 | tee build.log
    • … takes some while
  7. mingw32-make install 2>&1 | tee install.log
  8. post installation
    • set system path to <openCV>/install/bin
    • set pthon path to <openCV>/install/Python2.*/Lib/site-packages
      • above did not work, so copied files under site-packages/to c:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\