Can someone link me a good guide for using libraries in a c or c++ project?
Right now I'm trying to add OpenCV to a newly created project. I've added all the directories I can think of in "Project and Solutions -> VC++ Directories" and to make sure I've dragged and dropped all the .lib and .dll files into the project.
The project builds but when I run the simple "Hello, World program" it gives me this error message:
"cv.exe unable to locate component.
This application has failed to start because cv200.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem."
How can I really add this cv200.dll? I've dragged&dropped it into the project..
Thanks!
You need to make sure that cv200.dll is in the DLL search path at run time. The easiest way to do this is to put it in the same directory as the built executable. Dragging and dropping a DLL or LIB file into your project has no effect.
MSDN has a good description of the full DLL search order when loading libraries at runtime.
By default during installation OpenCV create env. variable path \bin.
All dll assumed to be in that dir. However you are using OpenCV 2.0, and OpenCV 2.0 installation doesn't include lib and dll files for Visual Studio. You seems already built all dll's and lib's. If you installed OpenCV correctly just move all dll's into \bin (for example C:\Program Files\OpenCV\bin)
If for some reason you are missing some dll or libs here is instruction how to build them
http://mirror2image.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/switching-to-opencv-2-0-with-vs2005/
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I am using visual studio 2010 under Win7-64bit to build an application with openCV. I finished development and build the release version without error. I also successfully run the program in debug mode. I then move the .exe file to other directory in the same computer. I run it in cmd.exe and I got error warning: Error opening file <../../modules/highgui/src/cap_ffmpeg_implhpp:537>
I guess there are some dependence with some libraries of openCV but I don't how to solve it. My final task is that I can use that .exe in another computer under Win7 directly. How to do it?
I found a similar question here. But I don't have .dll file built, so what should I do to solve this problem?
Building an OpenCV app with shared libs (DLLs) require the DLLs to be available (same folder or in lookup path) to the exe when it is run.
If you are using static linking then you don't need any of the OpenCV DLLs to be reachable. However, due to licensing issues, ffmpeg is linked dynamically even when the rest of the libs are linked statically, and thus, you need to have the ffmpeg DLL available for the exe. It is called something like opencv_ffmpeg*.dll.
Note that this is only needed if you are using highgui related functionality.
I am trying to build a project from the following Source Code (it accompanies a book I am currently reading). Unfortunately, visual studio can not run a library with the name "cyclone_d.lib". I believe this is because visual studio simply can not locate the file. I have spent several hours trying to fix this problem by changing the settings in the linker and project, for example adding Additional Directories, but I have not been able to get any results.
Please let me know how I can fix this problem and compile the code.
Thank You!
Your link to source points only to some Unix-style source files but no VS project files. So I can only guess and give general help.
A VS solution contains one or more projects. Each project has a build target, in most cases a EXE, DLL, or static library LIB. When you have a solution that includes an project with an EXE build target set the option "Set as StartUp Project" at that project in the solution tree.
If you don't have an EXE change your project setup to create a Win32 executable instead a library. For this task the most simple approach is creating a new project (Win32 Console Application or Win32 Project) and add all the source files.
I've build a project with opencv, when I share my .exe on other pc they can't find some dlls, this happens in release and debug mode, I searched on the web and I know I must configure the properties of the project, I tried configure MFC but with all the configuration the problem persist.
thank you!
Are they SystemFramework libraries? Or are they libraries that your app specifically uses, ones that you have imported into the project?
If they are your custom/imported libraries, make sure you copy them to output, and send them with the exe. The point of an installer is to bring the client your executable will of the the files it need to reference, compiled into a single file.
It seems the runtime librarie of opencv are missing. I'm not familiar with opencv, but VS provides a way to find all dependencies: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/dd293568.aspx. You can build an installation package for your application.
Another way to find all dependencies is using depends.exe, details are in:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235265.aspx
I am trying to use the DevIl image library in Windows in my project, using MSVS2010. I have downloaded the sdk "DevIL 1.7.8 SDK for 32-bit Windows" from http://openil.sourceforge.net/download.php and put in a folder where all my others libraries are. I have configured my project to include its headers and to link with the .lib provided. I have copied the dll provided to the folder my .exe is. It compiles and links with no problem but when i try to execute it i have an error popup saying something like "procedure entry point _ilGetData#0 could not be located in DevIl.dll" (translation from spanish). I have followed the same steps as in all libraries i am using with no problems, so i don´t know where the problem is.
Thanks for you help.
I believe the problem is that the binaries were built with an older version of Visual Studio... you may have to build the library yourself.
I'm a bit confused as to what's happening here.
My understanding is that when an assembly is required at runtime, the runtime will first try to load the assembly from the executing directory (or the directory where the dependant executable is located). After which it will attempt to find the assembly within the GAC.
First of all, I am on Windows.
Now, when I'm compiling my solution is VS, everything works fine (as expected), but when I compile the same solution in MonoDevelop, the compilation stops due to errors pertaining to a missing log4net reference (the exact assembly for which I manually installed into the GAC to avoid this situation).
So, my question is this: Does MonoDevelop look at the GAC at compilation time to determine if an assembly is available, or is there another location in which I need to provide the required assembly?
Thank you for your help!
From MonoDevelop site:
I added an assembly to the GAC, why doesn't it appear in the assemblies list when I try to add a reference in a MonoDevelop project?
Bacause MonoDevelop does not look for assemblies in the GAC. On Mac
and Linux, MonoDevelop uses pkg-config to locate installed packages
and get the list of assemblies that each package provides. A package
specifies this list of assemblies in a .pc file which has to be
installed in the standard pkg-config directory.
If you are developing a library, MonoDevelop can automatically
generate a .pc file for your project (in the project options dialog,
select "Linux Deployment Settings", and check the "Generate .pc file"
option).
When targetting .NET on Windows, MonoDevelop uses the same
AssemblyFolders mechamisn that VS uses.