January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
486 pages
11h 28m
English
Content preview from Computer Vision with OpenCV 3 and Qt5
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Installing OpenCV
In this section of the chapter, you'll learn how to build OpenCV using its source codes. As you'll see later on, and as opposed to the title of this section, we're not really installing OpenCV in a way similar to what we experienced with Qt installation. That's because OpenCV usually doesn't provide pre-built binaries for all compilers and platforms, and in fact it provides no pre-built binaries for macOS and Linux at all. In the most recent Win pack of the OpenCV, only pre-built binaries for MSVC 2015 64-bit are included, which are not compatible with the 32-bit version that we'll be using, so it's a very good idea to learn how to build OpenCV yourself. It also has the advantage of building an OpenCV framework library that ...