Reusing OpenCV 2.3.1 bundled image Stitching module - visual-studio-2010

I am lost in a rabbit hole, please bear with me.
I'm trying to use the OpenCV Stitching module from the 2.3.1 Win superpack distribution. I dragged all the source files in /modules/stitching into a Visual Studio project, resolved the Includes and Libs as best I could, and got it to compile.*
The first strange runtime error I had was that I could not read a JPG file from disk with imread(). It did not throw an error, but was returning true for myImage.empty(). I reverted to cvLoadImage() and then it worked.
Now, after that, there is a new runtime error:
Unhandled exception at 0x00870d8f in MyStitcher.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation writing location 0x010e7000.
This occurs in /modules/stitching/matchers.cpp when trying to pass reference to features.keypoints as a detector_->detect() argument. I assume detect() is supposed to populate the keypoints with its result. features appears to be uninitialized (it has 612933850 empty keypoints at the breakpoint). Now this is starting to sound like the source I'm trying to compile is just broken, but opencv_stitching.exe that comes prebuilt works just fine. Was it compiled from different source?
By the way, I do not know how to use the CMake system to generate Visual Studio projects, as recommended, for OpenCV. The CMakeLists.txt file in the /modules/stitching folder did not work. Is it not supposed to be used as a starting point?
*One note on this: CMakeLists.txt in /modules/stitching specifies some
libs named opencv_core, opencv_imgproc, opencv_highgui, etc. (without
a version indication) but the libs included with OpenCV 2.3.1 Win32
superpack (which I'm linking to) are named opencv_core231.lib,
opencv_imgproc231.lib, etc. Is this a clear indication that I am using
mismatched binaries for the stitching module?

I got this working after building the latest from the OpenCV SVN. The stitching module came a long way since the 231 release.

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I am using Code::Blocks with wxwidgets and I have include and lib folders under Document\wxwidgets. I am very new to c++ libraries. In Code::Blocks project initialization, I entered the location for wxwidgets. Then in setting/global enviornment variables I entered in base the Document\wxwidgets again. Still, I am not able to run the app. It shows the error in the include/wx/platform.h file where it says
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Cannot build EmulationStation (VS2015) from CMake solution file

I'm having difficulties trying to compile an opensource framework (EmulationStation) in VS2015 on Windows. I've never used any of the tools before, apart from Visual Studio - so please forgive me if these are some obvious mistakes.
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Another screendump of some of the errors from VS2015:
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I am currently in de same boat as you, trying to get ES building under MSVS2015.
I am also very green, so hopefully others chime in as well.
Regarding the 'round' errors, apparently the MS compiler has no knowledge of these. For this issue, and some others, the newer ES fork by Herdinger has fixed this.
As this is currently the most active ES branch out there, and has the explicit goal of consolidating at least some of the backlog of PRs from the original Aloshi git, I would suggest you use this one.
In issue #4, there is some more information on building in recent VS versions. There is also a link for the precompiled cURL libs, including the header.
Having gone that far, I am sad to say that I still do not have a succesfull build as of yet. Compiling is no problem, however linking gives me a LNK2005 error.
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Still I receive an error "LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'opencv_ffmpeg231.lib"

Beginner in Image Processing with OpenCV. I am trying to load an Image in VS2010 with OpenCV 2.3.1. However I have the libraries included and the system variables updated. I have checked couple of other forums suggesting using a different version of OpenCV. I have tried using OpenCV 2.4.0 and 2.3.0 and its the same error I receive. Any workaround for this would break the barrier!!
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i.e, for version 2.4.7 it would be *opencv_ffmpeg247.lib*
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How to compile opencv 245 with visual studio 2010 and openCL support?

I have much trouble compiling OpenCV 245 with GPU support. With some effort I managed to have cuda support up and running, but now I am stuck on opencl, here is the problem:
At some point during the compilation, the file kernels.cpp is generated, containing all kernel functions as strings. For what I understand, they are converted automatically from the .cl files with the cl2cpp.cmake script.
What I don't understand is that one file is excluded from the build: nonfree_surf.cl (which is on my disk, alongside all other .cl files) is not included, either in the visual studio project, or in the kernels.cpp that is automatically generated. This leads to an undefined error at link time.
I have tried manually adding the nonfree_surf.cl to the visual studio project. This does not change anything. In the CMakeLists.txt for ocl module, all the cl files seem to be automatically added with the line:
file(GLOB CL_FILES "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/kernels/*.cl")
I have tried manually adding nonfree_surf to CL_FILES, with no effect.
I have very little knowledge of CMake, hence I don't understand well what is going on. Can somebody give me a clue how I could find the reason of this behavior, namely:
Why are all .cl files added to my VS project, except nonfree_surf.cl ?
How can I correct this ?
Maybe I can execute cl2cpp.cmake script manually ? If so, how ?
Managed it by manually running the script:
cmake -DOUTPUT_PATH=c:/opencv/kernels2.cpp -DCL_DIR:PATH=c:/opencv/modules/ocl/src/kernels -P "c:\opencv\modules\ocl\cl2cpp.cmake"
For some reason (probably the same that makes nonfree_surf not be processed), not every necessary function are processed this way, so I juste copy-pasted the nonfree_surf string into kernels.cpp, and proceeded with the build.
If anyone needs the binaries, since they are a pain to compile, here they are:
Opencv 2.4.5 binaries compiled with VS2010 x86 (WIN32) including ocl and gpu library.

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