How to setup Qt and openCV on Windows

How to setup Qt and openCV on Windows

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Introduction

This article shows how to install both Qt and openCV, and build a basic OpenCV example. This article assumes only windows has been installed. Precompiled binaries are used.

This article is tested with windows 7, Qt v... and OpenCV v....

This article uses knowledge from the following pages: http://docs.opencv.org/2.4/doc/tutorials/introduction/windows_install/windows_install.html?highlight=installation

Windows, precompiled binaries

Install OpenCV

Download the newest version from sourceforge . At the time of this writing, opencv-3.2.0-vc14.exe (118MB) is the latest version. Execute the program, then enter a location with at least 460MB free. This how to assumes OpenCV to be extracted to "d:\", so the folder d:\opencv exists.

Install Qt

Download the Qt installer from www.qt.io, then choose "Download now" This will then download qt-unified-windows-x86-2.0.5-online.exe Execute the program, then choose the following settings:

welcome next
qt account skip
setup-Qt next
installation folder: D:\Qt
select components: next (accept defaults)
License Agreement: agree and next
start menu shortcuts: next
ready to install: install