January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
486 pages
11h 28m
English
Content preview from Computer Vision with OpenCV 3 and Qt5
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Configuring OpenCV installation
Remember we mentioned that OpenCV is a framework and you will learn how to use it with Qt? Well, Qt offers a very easy-to-use method to include any third-party library, such as OpenCV, in your Qt projects. To be able to use OpenCV in Qt, you need to use a special kind of file which is called a PRI file. PRI files are files that are used to add third-party modules and include them in your Qt projects. Note that you only need to do this once, and for the rest of the book you will use this file in all your projects, so it's a very crucial (yet very easy) part of the Qt configuration.
Start by creating a text file in a folder of your choice. I recommend using the same folder you used for OpenCV build because that ...