OpenCV in Visual Studio 2012

It's surprisingly easy, just took about 15 minutes to see some example code running.

Steps to create the first OpenCV project using Visual Studio 2012

1. Download: opencv.org > OpenCV for Windows
2. Run the downloaded executable and decompress to d:\opencv (to help the examples below)
3. Open Visual Studio 2012, create new project  Visual C++ > Win32 > Win32 Console Application
4. Add "Include Directories": Project Properties > Configuration Properties > C/C++ > General > Additional Include Directories, add: D:\opencv\build\include
5. Change to static link (optional, but if this is not done, then the library below need to be changed slightly): Project Properties > Configuration Properties > C/C++ > Code Generation > Runtime Library, select Multi-threaded (Debug)
6. Add "Library Directories": Project Properties > Configuration Properties > Linker > General > Additional Library Directories, add:D:\opencv\build\x86\vc11\staticlib (or  D:\opencv\build\x86\vc11\lib if you don't want static link)
7. Add lib files: Project Properties > Configuration Properties > Linker > Input >Additional Dependencies, add the libraries listed below. (Note: 1. comctl32 is a Windows library; 2. replace "246" to version number you have; 3. files ending with "d" is debug version, for release configuration, remove it)

IlmImfd.lib
libjasperd.lib
libjpegd.lib
libpngd.lib
libtiffd.lib
opencv_calib3d246d.lib
opencv_contrib246d.lib
opencv_core246d.lib
opencv_features2d246d.lib
opencv_flann246d.lib
opencv_gpu246d.lib
opencv_haartraining_engined.lib
opencv_highgui246d.lib
opencv_imgproc246d.lib
opencv_legacy246d.lib
opencv_ml246d.lib
opencv_nonfree246d.lib
opencv_objdetect246d.lib
opencv_ocl246d.lib
opencv_photo246d.lib
opencv_stitching246d.lib
opencv_superres246d.lib
opencv_ts246d.lib
opencv_video246d.lib
opencv_videostab246d.lib
zlibd.lib
comctl32.lib

Now, for a quick sanity check, run one of the sample code from opencv.org (the example I used is "Hough Circle Transform" http://docs.opencv.org/doc/tutorials/imgproc/imgtrans/hough_circle/hough_circle.html
 
Environment:

• Windows 7
• Visual Studio 2012
• OpenCV 2.4.6