Installation in iOS

Required packages

  • GCC 4.x or later
  • CMake 2.8 or higher
  • Xcode 4.0 or higher

Getting the cutting-edge OpenCV from SourceForge SVN repository

Launch SVN client and checkout either

  1. the current OpenCV snapshot from here: http://code.opencv.org/svn/opencv/trunk
  2. or the latest tested OpenCV snapshot from here: http://code.opencv.org/svn/opencv/tags/latest_tested_snapshot

In MacOS it can be done using the following command in Terminal:

cd ~/<my_working _directory>
svn co http://code.opencv.org/svn/opencv/trunk

Building OpenCV from source using CMake, using the command line

  1. Create a temporary directory, which we denote as <cmake_binary_dir>, where you want to put the generated Makefiles, project files as well the object filees and output binaries

  2. Enter the <cmake_binary_dir> and type

    cmake [<some optional parameters>] <path to the OpenCV source directory>
    

    For example

    cd ~/opencv
    cd ..
    mkdir release
    cd release
    cmake -GXcode -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=../opencv/ios/cmake/Toolchains/Toolchain-iPhoneOS_Xcode.cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../OpenCV_iPhoneOS -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE ../opencv
    
  3. Enter the created temporary directory (<cmake_binary_dir>) and proceed with:

    xcodebuild -sdk iphoneos -configuration Release -target ALL_BUILD
    xcodebuild -sdk iphoneos -configuration Release -target install install