Tag Archives: 2.3.1

Install OpenCV 2.3.1a in Mac OS X 10.6

Posted by on 2012/05/21 8 comments

Download OpenCV 2.3.1a and unpack it:

curl -L -O http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/opencvlibrary/opencv-unix/2.3.1/OpenCV-2.3.1a.tar.bz2
tar xzvpf OpenCV-2.3.1a.tar.bz2

Then configure and compile it:

cd OpenCV-2.3.1
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" ..
make
sudo make install

You can use different options when executing cmake:

  • -D BUILD_EXAMPLES=ON -> Compile example programs.
  • -D BUILD_TESTS=OFF -> Don’t compile tests.
  • -D BUILD_NEW_PYTHON_SUPPORT=OFF -> Don’t compile new Python support.
  • -D WITH_CARBON=ON -> (mostly for Leopard and below) To use Carbon instead of Cocoa (since version r2909).
  • -D WITH_QUICKTIME=ON -> (mostly for Leopard and below) To use QuickTime for the I/O of Video instead of QTKit (since version r2924). If you use Snow Leopard and need Carbon and QuickTime, you must also specify -D CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=i386, -D CMAKE_C_FLAGS=-m32 and -D CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-m32.

If you don’t have cmake installed download a “binary distribution” from cmake.org. For example http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/cmake-2.8.7-Darwin64-universal.dmg.

You can compile OpenCV for an specific architecture using CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES with those values:

i386
x86_64
ppc
ppc64

For example:

cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -D CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=i386 ..

To create a “universal build” use both i386 and ppc:

cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -D CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=i386 ppc ..

If you want to compile for a 32 bit architecture is mandatory to add -m32 to C and CXX flags. If you don’t add it you could end up with this warning:

created and used with differing settings of '-m32'

To solve this use -m32 option in CMAKE_C_FLAGS and CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS:

cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -D CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=i386 -D CMAKE_C_FLAGS=-m32 -D CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-m32 ..

Install OpenCV 2.3.1 in Ubuntu 12.04

Posted by on 2012/05/17 8 comments

OpenCV 2.3.1 is now the last version in repositories so you just need to run:

sudo apt-get install libopencv-*

And to have Python support:

sudo apt-get install python-opencv
sudo apt-get install python-numpy

Anyway, I recommend compiling it from the sources to configure it for your computer and to learn how CMake works. Have a look at my previous post Install OpenCV 2.3.1a in Ubuntu 11.10. That guide works perfectly fine for Ubuntu 12.04.

Source: Jayrambhia

Install OpenCV 2.3.1a in Ubuntu 11.10

Posted by on 2012/04/30 4 comments

If you want to install OpenCV 2.1 you can just use apt-get to do the work:

sudo apt-get install libcv-dev libcv2.1 libcvaux-dev libcvaux2.1 libhighgui-dev libhighgui2.1 opencv-doc python-opencv

Some changes introduced in Ubuntu 11.10 causes OpenCV 2.3.1a not to compile because of ffmpeg. This makes the installation more complicated as we have to compile some libraries on our own. The other option would be just disabling ffmpeg in OpenCV with ccmake in WITH_FFMPEG option or using “-DWITH_FFMPEG=NO” with cmake.

First we have to uninstall some libraries:

sudo apt-get remove ffmpeg x264 libx264-dev

Get all the dependencies we need (run sudo apt-get update before this just in case):

sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall git cmake libfaac-dev libjack-jackd2-dev libmp3lame-dev libopencore-amrnb-dev libopencore-amrwb-dev libsdl1.2-dev libtheora-dev libva-dev libvdpau-dev libvorbis-dev libx11-dev libxfixes-dev libxvidcore-dev texi2html yasm zlib1g-dev libtiff4-dev

Install gstreamer:

sudo apt-get install libgstreamer0.10-0 libgstreamer0.10-dev gstreamer0.10-tools gstreamer0.10-plugins-base libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg

Download, compile and install a stable and recent version of x264 (in my case it was x264-snapshot-20111213-2245-stable):

wget ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/last_stable_x264.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf last_stable_x264.tar.bz2
cd `ls -1d */ | grep x264-snapshot-`
./configure --enable-static
make
sudo make install

If you are compiling for x64 arquitecture it may be necessary to use the --enable-pic and --enable-shared option when running ./configure:

./configure --enable-static --enable-pic --enable-shared

Download, compile and install a 0.8.x version of ffmpeg (in my case it was 0.8.7) (for versions prior to OpenCV 2.3.1 use a 0.7.x version), although with versión 0.10.x works too:

wget http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.8.7.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf fmpeg-0.8.7.tar.bz2
cd ffmpeg-0.8.7
./configure --enable-gpl --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-version3 --enable-x11grab
make
sudo make install

As it happend with x264 it may be necessary to use the –enable-pic and –enable-shared option when running ./configure:

./configure --enable-gpl --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-version3 --enable-x11grab --enable-pic --enable-shared

Install gtk:

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-dev

Install libjpeg:

sudo apt-get install libjpeg62 libjpeg62-dev

Download, compile and install a 0.8.x version of v4l (in my case it was 0.8.5 but the, as of april 2012, 0.8.8 version works too):

wget http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-utils/v4l-utils-0.8.5.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf v4l-utils-0.8.5.tar.bz2
cd v4l-utils-0.8.5
make
sudo make install

Download, compile and install OpenCV 2.3.1a:

wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/files/opencv-unix/2.3.1/OpenCV-2.3.1a.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf OpenCV-2.3.1a.tar.bz2
cd OpenCV-2.3.1
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

Beyond this point you can look at how to install OpenCV in Ubuntu 10.10 for more configuration options of OpenCV installation.

Sources: http://ozbots.org/opencv-installation/

http://thebitbangtheory.wordpress.com/2011/10/23/how-to-install-opencv-2-3-1-in-ubuntu-11-10-oneiric-ocelot-with-python-support/