start to learn OpenCV

Though I’m not used to handling the graphics, I’m gonna start to learn OpenCV from now on.

I’m using Mac OSX snow leopard.

Begin with install the OpenCV library.

First, Download the source here.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/files/opencv-unix/2.2/OpenCV-2.2.0.tar.bz2/download


Then, go to ~/Downloads/ and extract the OpenCV from .tar.bz2.
hit the keyboard like below

tar jxvf OpenCV-2.2.0.tar.bz2

Now you got OpenCV-2.2.0 directory there.

Next, it seem that it is necessary to install the CMake.

I want to install OpenCV from source code, but now I have no time to consume time for building the environment itself.

So, I already install the homebrew into my Mac. I use it this time.

brew install opencv

That’s it. I have to appreciate to homebrew’s developer. 🙂

I thought preparation is done, and got to start using opencv,

One of the package that is needed to build the OpenCV, pkg-config cannot download!
pkg-config site return 503. I wonder this is a temporary or not.

Now I have other tasks so I will do this later.