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OpenCV on ZedBoard

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Has anyone been able to successfully install OpenCV on the ZedBoard?  I get an internal compiler error, which I believe has to do with the lack of a GPU.  I've glanced briefly at the make file to try to figure out a way around this but so far no luck.

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  • 0 in reply to bhfletcher

    I've been able to get OpenCV to work, although it's somewhat hindered.  Anything with GPU acceleration is obviously not going to work, and because of the ARM processor you don't get the convenient automatic threading you get with Intel processors.  Besides that some dependencies don't work with ARM, and as far as I can tell some that should work with ARM just won't work on this board. 

    I built it within Xillinux rather than try to cross-compile it.  Obviously cross-compiling has its advantages but there are so many dependencies I haven't even tried yet.

    If you follow this guide (http://www.samontab.com/web/2012/06/installing-opencv-2-4-1-ubuntu-12-04-lts/), ignoring the steps about apt-get update and apt-get upgrade (if you do this you will not be able to reboot or recover and have to reformat your SD card), removing any dependencies it says it can't find (there are a lot), ignoring the warnings, it will install and you have a partially working OpenCV library.  As of yet, I can't really figure out why some parts work and some parts don't, but it's a starting point.

    I'm doing this on the compressed xillinux 3.3 kernel, not the full Digilent kernel.  The Digilent kernel has given me nothing but trouble.

  • 0 in reply to Former Member

    I am trying to install opencv on Xillinux as described in the link, after installing cmake when i reach to this commnad

    root@localhost:~/OpenCV-2.4.1/build# cmake -DWITH_TBB=ON -DWITH_V4L=ON -DINSTALL_C_EXAMPLES=ON -DBUILD_EXAMPLES=ON
    iget this error
    CMake Error: The source directory "/root/OpenCV-2.4.1/build" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.
    Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI.

    can u help me with this. or may be share with me what exactly you did to get opencv running on zedboard