Download And Installation

Getting the Source

• Follow this link to the file server on Source Forge.
• The source files are contained in the package Emgu.CV.SourceAndExamples-{version}.zip

Getting the Dependency

Windows

• Emgu CV use WCF(Windows Communication Foundation) therefore requires .Net 3.0

• For Windows, OpenCV 1.0.0.1 and zlib.net Dlls are included in Emgu.CV.Windows.Binary-{version}.zip

Linux

• To run Emgu CV on linux, you need OpenCV version >= 1.0.0. On Fedora 10, you can install the dependency by running yum install opencv as root

• Mono
  • You need Mono >= 2.2. If you need to compile Emgu CV from source, do NOT use gmcs 2.0.0 / 2.0.1, there is a bug in these two versions.
  • Emgu CV library use WCF (Windows Communication Fundation) and therefore also requires mono-extra.
  • You can install both by running yum install mono-core mono-extra as root. (Please enable rawhide repository in order to get Mono >= 2.2)

• For Linux, zlib.net dll is included in Emgu.CV.Linux.Binary-{version}.tar.gz

Getting the Binary

Follow this link to access the file server on Source Forge.

Windows

• The binary files for Windows are included in the package Emgu.CV.Windows.Binary-{version}.zip

• They are compiled from source on Windows using MsBuild

Linux

• The binary files for Linux are included in the package Emgu.CV.Linux.Binary-{version}.tar.gz

• They are compiled from source in Fedora 9 using mono-1.9.1 with flag LINUX

Creating Your Project

Visual Studio

To use the framework in Visual Studio, you need to

• Create a new Visual Studio project or use an existing one
• Add the 3 files zlib.net.dll, Emgu.Utils.dll and Emgu.CV.dll to References of the project
• Copy the OpenCV dll files: cv100.dll, cvaux100.dll, cvcam100.dll, cxcore100.dll, cxts001.dll, highgui100.dll, libguide40.dll and ml100.dll to the execution directory.
• Optionally put the following line

using Emgu.CV;

in the top of your code to include the Emgu.CV namespace.

• Follow the Tutorial to learn how to use Emgu CV. The "Hello, World" Example is a good starting point.