RE: Using OpenCV in Octave for Windows

[Hennecke Marcus]

Wow, this list is great! Thanks for the quick replies and sorry for not getting 
back sooner, I was actually out of the city.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Lindner [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 2:44 PM
> > I have a quick look at
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/files/.
> > 
> > Did you install this ?
> > OpenCV-2.1.0-win32-vs2008.exe

Thank you very much for looking into this! 

Yes, this is the installer I used.

> I had a quick glance on OpenCV-2.1.0-win32-vs2008.exe, but 
> I'm not familiar with cmake, and couldn't quite find out how 
> the octave wrappers are supposedly being built (I thought I 
> might just manually do this).
> They provide dlls, import libs and include files, but all in 
> msvc style.
> [...]
> I also tried recreating the nnn_wrap.cpp files from the 
> opencv-2.1.0 sources using swig, but here swig stops with a 
> syntax error in its own libraries/headers ?!?

Wow, thanks for trying all of this! Thus far I had only searched the Internet 
and various mailing lists and support forums but not yet actually tried 
compiling it. I was hoping I could get by with precompiled binaries.

> From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 12:07 PM
> 
> If so, you should build the OpenCV from source using the 
> MinGW GCC-4.4.0 (Because the current
> octave/mingw32 built by GCC-4.4.0.
> 
> See
> http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/MinGW

This is a good idea. I will try it and report back.

Thanks again!

Best regards,
Marcus