February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
372 pages
9h 26m
English
Content preview from Learning OpenCV 4 Computer Vision with Python 3 - Third Edition
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Installation on macOS
macOS comes with a preinstalled Python distribution that has been customized by Apple for the system's internal needs. To develop our own projects, we should make a separate Python installation to ensure that we do not conflict with the system's Python needs.
For macOS, there are several possible approaches for obtaining standard versions of Python 3, NumPy, SciPy, and OpenCV. All approaches ultimately require OpenCV to be compiled from source using the Xcode command-line tools. However, depending on the approach, this task is automated for us in various ways by third-party tools. We will look at this kind of approach using a package manager called Homebrew. A package manager can potentially do everything that CMake ...