Installing OpenCV 2 with Visual Studio 2005/2008

harry — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:21:20 +0000

OpenCV 2.0a offers convenient installation support via cMake. But when I tried to generate MS Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 project files, I instantly got the following error:
Determining if the C compiler works failed with the following output: Change Dir: D:/OpenCV2.0/vs08/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp Run Build Command:D:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~1.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.com CMAKE_TRY_COMPILE.sln /build Debug /project cmTryCompileExec Microsoft (R) Visual Studio Version 9.0.21022.8. Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. All rights reserved. 1>------ Build started: Project: cmTryCompileExec, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ 1>Compiling... 1>Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 15.00.21022.08 for 80x86 1>Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. 1>cl /Od /D "WIN32" /D "_WINDOWS" /D "_DEBUG" /D "CMAKE_INTDIR=\"Debug\"" /D "_MBCS" /FD /RTC1 /MDd /Fo"cmTryCompileExec.dir\Debug\\" /Fd"D:/OpenCV2.0/vs08/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp/Debug/cmTryCompileExec.pdb" /W3 /c /Zi /TC /Zm1000 1> .\testCCompiler.c 1>testCCompiler.c 1>Compiling manifest to resources... 1>Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Resource Compiler Version 6.0.5724.0 1>Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. 1>Linking... 1>Embedding manifest... 1>Project : error PRJ0003 : Error spawning 'cmd.exe'. 1>Build log was saved at "file://d:\OpenCV2.0\vs08\CMakeFiles\CMakeTmp\cmTryCompileExec.dir\Debug\BuildLog.htm" 1>cmTryCompileExec - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s) ========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

The problem is not OpenCV specific. To fix it, start Visual Studio, then goto “Tools” –> “Options” –> “Projects and Solutions” –> “VC++ Directories” and add these lines:
$(SystemRoot)\System32 $(SystemRoot) $(SystemRoot)\System32\wbem

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harry — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:59:43 +0000

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Installing OpenCV 2 with Visual Studio 2005/2008

Introduction