Installing openCV on Lion OS 10.7.4 Xcode 4.3.2

Question

I'm trying to install openCV on university's iMac,

but the problem is our university's network is so strict.

and I couldn't install openCV using MacPorts.

I tried google to look for a way to install but it all failed

i guess because it is kind of old ways and because my network is so strict.

So if anybody knows a way that I can download a ready framework with how to use it inside

Xcode. or at least a framework with how to install it to work with Xcode. or a way to download from the source and compile it then install it in Xcode please.

Because I tried the cmake way and I still have no luck to get it work.

thanks in advance.

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sources I used:

http://salemsayed.me/?p=240

http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/InstallGuide

http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/Mac_OS_X_OpenCV_Port

http://www.ient.rwth-aachen.de/cms/software/opencv/

Answer 1

I'm using Lion + Xcode 4.x branch, with OpenCV svn trunk. Everything works fine. You have to install cmake first, then get the code from the svn following the instructions at http://code.opencv.org . The compilation process worked fine for me for all the core modules + the Qt module + the GPU module + TBB acceleration.

The instructions are the same as the Linux platform. After setting up cmake configuration in a terminal (using ccmake for a more interactive tool), I set the architecture to x86_64 (on my MBP Core 2 Duo), the target directory to /usr/local/ (the default), and I have Intel TBB installed in /usr/local/ .

Cmake generates the makefiles for you, so you just have to type make -j2 to compile, then sudo make install . If you're working on a workstation, then you have more CPU power, and you can replace the value 2 by more, eg 8.