How to configure openCV project in visual studio

First of all make sure that you have extracted the selected version of openCV library into the selected folder of your machine & set the environment variables correctly.

If you have missed any single step of above process your project won’t work. According to my view it’s better to download and extract the stable version of openCV library (As it has many posts in forums and solutions for the general questions that appear in the development process)

First you need to create a new project. Follow the steps given below

Go to File -> new -> project and select visual C++ and create windows32 Console Application 

After you press OK button below window will appear

Then Press Next > and tick empty project

Then right click on your project source files -> files -> Add ->New Item ->C++ file (.cpp) (Enter a name)

Then right click on your project name and go to properties

If your machine is 64 bit.Go to configuration manager and click new .

Then New Project Platform window will open

Select x64 from New Platform and press OK button

Close the configuration manager window.

The Go to C++ -> General ->Additional Include Directories -> Click on the dropdown and select edit

Here you need to include 3 directories (In my case)

      ·       C:\opencv\build\include

      ·       C:\opencv\build\include\opencv

      ·       C:\opencv\build\include\opencv2

Click OK and go to the Linker -> General -> Additional Library Directories & add the path to your VS lib(C:\opencv\build\x64\vc10\lib)

Here you must aware about your

       ·       Operating System (x64)

       ·       Visual Studio Version (vc10)

As the final step of configuration you need to go to Linker -> Input -> Additional Dependencies

Here you need add additional dependency library files. Usually it differ from openCV version to version (In openCV3 there is only 2 dependencies) .In my case I have to copy all the bellow libraries into additional dependencies (I am using old version of openCV)

Then Press OK & Apply

Now it’s the time to check whether our application is working correctly .Type this program in your .cpp file and right click on your project and click open folder in windows explorer and copy face.jpg in to the folder.  

Finally Build your solution and run .If you done all the configuration correctly you will get the bellow output

Please find  the summary of our process bellow

  ·       Right Click on Project -> properties ->Configure Manager ->Platform at    table ->new ->x64 ->OK

  ·       C/C++ ->General ->Additional include directories ->

o   ->……/include

o   ->……/include/opencv

o   ->……/include/opencv2

  ·       Linker -> General -> Additional library directories

->x64/vs10/lib

  ·       Linker ->input ->Additional Dependancies -> Copy paste Library list

opencv_calib3d247d.lib

opencv_contrib247d.lib

opencv_core247d.lib

opencv_features2d247d.lib

opencv_flann247d.lib

opencv_gpu247d.lib

opencv_highgui247d.lib

opencv_imgproc247d.lib

opencv_legacy247d.lib

opencv_ml247d.lib

opencv_nonfree247d.lib

opencv_objdetect247d.lib

opencv_ocl247d.lib

opencv_photo247d.lib

opencv_stitching247d.lib

opencv_superres247d.lib

opencv_ts247d.lib

opencv_video247d.lib

opencv_videostab247d.lib

(This library files are differ for versions of opncv )

Special thanks goes to Miss.Yovini Yashodara J

Here you can download opencv and just try it http://opencv.org/downloads.html