Ms Visual Studio and OpenCV
Step 1: Installing the software
Install Ms Visual Studio 2008
See the Microsoft website for instructions on how to obtain MSVS (Microsoft Visual Studio).
Install OpenCV
See this website for instructions.
Install the Ms SDK
See this website for instructions.
Step 2: Setting up MSVS
Include opencv in the project settings from MSVS. See this webpage for instructions. I will not copy them as that can only introduce errors.
Step 3: Setting up Ms Windows
All that is left now is the PATH settings from Windows.
First right click on “My Computer”, click on "Properties" then “Advanced System Settings” and finally "Environment Variables".
Now we have to add the path of the OpenCV /lib directory to the “PATH” in the System “Variables window”
Finally
... this is all to get running. Now you can start to get moving with the powerfull OpenCV framework.
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16 comments postedI also had problem with cxcore110.dll not found. The fix, make sure you have no spaces after the previous entry in PATH variable when adding the openCV/bin; It is sensitive to all characters including spaces
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It doesn't work because you didn't explain how to link the files.
John Del
I've followed the instructions above to the point including building the OpenCV debug and release versions successfully. It still doesn't work every time I try to use any cx... files i get cxcore110.dll error. The opencv programs not involving those files work fine... I'm getting rather desperate atm... Please advice if there is anything else I can do?
//Martin
I also experimented the same problem...
If I remember well, try to do this:
Check your environnement variables. In my case, the "OpenCV/bin" directory was in the user PATH variable. I added also in the system PATH variable, and since I did this, I never experimented the problem anymore.
And I have windows xp not vista.
I also have Windows XP and not Vista... or at least, I had when writing and installing this.
So it should work!!!
BUT you need to follow the links I provided very(!) carefully.
I also recommend you to be sure you remoev everything before you try to reinstall it. WHen I mean everything... I mean everything! So double check that you have no classpath somewhere anymore, or old files.
Then try again. I did it on more then 1 machine and multiple times... I am sure it works (you can also see it in the other comments).
The only part where it could still go wrong is, if they changes something to some of the software I described (newer Servicepack, updated version, using different version of MsVS).
I will try to reinstall it, do i need all the docs and samples for Ms SDK or are the dev-files enough? And about the paths, I have had both bin and lib directory in the system path variable. I've tried to have it in both the user and system path variables and I even tried adding it to the system classpath. It still didn't work. I followed the installation for opencv with both rebuilding debug/release versions and installing the 2005 sp1 thing (although the installation didn't seem to finish, it showed up in the installed programs list).
Easier OpenCv programs work but I still get cxcore110.dll error for my programs that work perfectly at home.
//Martin
I removed everything (including all the paths) and reinstalled according to your guid and the OpenCv wiki. I installed all ms sdk files and added only \lib and \bin to system path. I recompiled the debug and relese successfully but I still get the same problem... Plese help.. I'm getting rather desperate at this...
Hi,
I installed OpenCV with Visual Studio 2008 on Windows Vista. I have followed all the steps mentioned. I wrote a simple program for inversion of an image. It is compiling properly but when I try and run it, I get the following error- "LDR: LdrpWalkImportDescriptor() failed to probe C:\Program Files\OpenCV\bin\cxcore110.dll for its manifest, ntstatus 0xc0150002 "
Please tell me what can I do?
Thanks
I had the same problem - a dependency problem in the dll's. I rolled back to version 1.0 of OpenCV and it was fine. From a few things I read online it looks like it might be depending on a Vista only dll? Not sure.