Installing OpenCV [Ubuntu 12.04 + Eclipse] : Part II

This post assumes that you have already installed opencv packages on your system. [If you haven't please check this post.]  

Having installed packages next step is to set up Eclipse.

1. Open Synaptic Package manager. In quick filter box type 'Eclipse'. 
2. Select 'eclipse' and 'eclipse-cdt' , select mark for installation and click apply. 
3. Open Eclipse. This will ask you to select workspace. Select the location where you plan to save your source code.
4. Select Flie->New->C++ Project.
   
   
5. Name project as tutProjectSetup. From project type select Empty Project. Click Finish.
6. This will create a new project. From the Project Explorer window select this new project.
7. From toolbar select project->properties.
   
8. Expand C/C++ build from the right pane. In settings box click on the tab Tool Settings. 
9. Expand cross GCC Compiler select Includes. Type the include path for opencv here. To find out include path for your installation open terminal and type
   
   $ pkg-config --cflags opencv 
   This will output include path. For example in my case output of pkg-config was -I/usr/include/opencv . Strip initial -I from the string and add this path to Include paths. In my case it is /usr/include/opencv .
   
   
10. Select cross G++ Compiler and follow similar procedure mentioned in step 9. 
11. Now select Cross G++ linker->Libraries.
    In  library search path section enter the path of opencv libraries. You can find out this path by typing following command on terminal
    $pkg-config --libs opencv
    
    This will generate output path and a list of libraries available in opencv package.
    Add this path in library search path. In my case this path is /usr/lib . In libraries section add following libraries. Adding first three of the list is usually sufficient.  
    
    opencv_core opencv_imgproc
    opencv_highgui
    opencv_ml opencv_video
    opencv_features2d
    opencv_calib3d
    opencv_objdetect
    opencv_contrib
    opencv_legacy
    opencv_flann
    
    Click ok.
    
    
12. Lets test the configuration of our project. Right Click on project and add->new->folder. Name this folder as src. Right click on this folder and add new source file. Name this file as testConfig.cpp . 
13. Add the code posted here to testConfig.cpp. 
14. Again right click on project and create new folder. This time name this folder as res. Select a small jpg image from your computer and paste this image in res folder. Rename newly added image as download.jpg. 
15. Right Click on tutProjectSetup and build. Again right click on project and select run as ->local c++ application.
16. This will display your image in a new window.