I’ve had a long history of not being a fan of the Windows operating system. While Windows 7 was a decent release of the OS, version eight was an absolute dumpster fire and the early builds of Windows 10 weren’t much better. The more recent builds of Windows 10, however, have certainly started to win me over, especially when Microsoft surprised everyone by coming out with the Windows Subsystem for Linux....
In my previous tutorial, I outlined how to build the OpenCV 4 library on Microsoft Windows 10. In that tutorial, however, I did not mention how to use that library in an actual project. This time around I will be showing you how to create an OpenCV 4 project within Microsoft Visual Studio 2017. Please note that I am going to assume that your OpenCV install is set up in the way I outlined in my previous tutorial....
I love working with the OpenCV library, but it can be a royal pain in the butt to get it installed and running on your machine. This is especially true for Microsoft Windows. Despite a Google search turning up plenty of results for articles promising to show you how to do it, they all seem to have issues or be incomplete. This results in a rather frustrating experience when you just want to get things up and running....