OpenCV Installation failure due to QTKit

Question

I'm trying to install openCV for Python on my Mac but after going through a bunch of tutorials, none seem to work for me. These are the steps I took

1. Installed CMake
2. Downloaded the OpenCV library
3. Used CMake to generate the Unix Makefiles
4. Run make on the generated files

And this is where the error arises.

fatal error: 'QTKit/QTKit.h' file not found

I searched and I found QTKitDefines.h instead at /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/QTKit.framework/Versions/A/Headers/

Upon opening, it read

QTKit has been deprecated in 10.9. AVFoundation and AVKit are the frameworks recommended for all new development involving time-based audiovisual media on OS X. In order to transition your project from QTKit to AVFoundation please refer to: "Technical Note TN2300 Transitioning QTKit code to AV Foundation".

I tried searching and nothing has deem fruitful. All similar issues I found, the users still had QTKit.h . Take for instance this folk

Any help will sincerely be appreciated.

Answer 1

I found a workaround by downloading the QTKit framework from this repo then I simply merged my framework with the one included in the repo and continued with my installation process successfully.

EDIT for Merging files

By dragging and dropping the downloaded framework into the same location as my current QTKit framework; since they both have the same name, a popup prompted me with three choices of either replacing , merging or cancel then I simply went for merging because this allows me to still keep my updated framework along with the repo one.