Tutorial 1 - Settup OPENCV in Visual Studio for Windows ( Part1 )

Today I'm going to show you how to setup OPENCV in Visual Studio for windows 10 

I've divided this tutorial into 4 parts.

• Part 1 - Download & Install Visual Studio
• part 2 - Dowload OPENCV
• Part 3 - Setup Environment Variables for OPENCV
• Part 4 - Adding OpenCv library to Visual Studio

There are only part 1 , part 2 and part 3 are in this article. You can check the Part 4 in the next article.

Part 1 - Download & Install Visual Studio

• You can download the Visual Studio from here.
• Then click Visual "Studio Community"

• When your download was finished open the setup file (vs_community_ENU.exe)

Part 2 - Dowload OPENCV

• You can download the OPENCV for windows from here.
• You may allowed to download any version of OPENCV as your wish. My preference was OPENCV 3.1. Click OPENCV for windows to download.

• Then open your opencv-3.1.0.exe setup after download has finished.
• You can set any location to extract opencv-3.1.0 in next window.

• Then go to the location you gave. You can see there is a folder named opencv. Now rename it as your download version. In my case I rename it as opencv31 (this is not very important point).
• Next step is to setup environment variable for opencv.

Part 3 - Setup Environment Variables for OPENCV

• First right click on this pc(my computer) and go to properties. 

 

• Next click Advanced system settings and select Environment variable.

• Then select the path in your system variable and click Edit. 

• Then go to your opencv directory and go ->opencv31\build\x6\vc14\bin (for Visual Studio 2015)
• or go to your opencv directory and go ->opencv31\build\x64\vc12\bin (for Visual Studio 2013)
• Then copy that path and paste in on variable value. Then click ok.

• Now system variable setting up is finished. Next step is adding opencv library to Visual Studio and check whether opencv are successfully installed or not. 
• So you can go to the next step simply click on here.