Blank hard drive - Find a USB external hard drive that holds at least 100 gigabytes (this is where youll install your macOS stuff, so the bigger, the better). You’ll also need the command line tools, so make sure you install those when given the option. In order to install macOS High Sierra on your Windows computer, you will need the following hardware: USB drive - Find a flash drive that can hold at least 16 gigabytes.

“Un-archive” it in your project directory.Ģ) OpenCV requires CMake to build it, so if you don’t have that installed, make sure you install it. I’ll be referring to this as the project directory.ġ) Download the source package ( OpenCV-2.4.3.tar.bz2 at time of writing) from the OpenCV download page. I like to keep all my projects sandboxed, so I created a directory ~/dev/OpenCV/ for this project.

Android Emulator is a software application that enables you to run Android apps and games on a PC by emulating Android OS. I didn’t find a writeup online on how to compile on the Mac-the one on the OpenCV site is out of date-so I thought I’d write up a short summary for future reference and any Googlers out there in internet land. OpenCV Manager is an Android app and cannot be installed on Windows PC or MAC directly.

What a difference! It’s now really easy to compile and use on the Mac. I had another requirement for some image processing magic and I thought I’d check out OpenCV again.

Open cv for windows or mac