Install OpenCV 3.0.0 in Windows 8 the easy way
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it when answering OpenCV 3.0 setup and linker problems on Windows, as a step-by-step install walkthrough to redo from scratch.
Recommended by 3 people across 3 different months, 2015 to 2015.
What it is
A short beginner tutorial from the OpenCV Moments series showing how to install OpenCV 3.0.0 on Windows 8 with minimal effort. It is aimed at total beginners who just want the library installed so they can start learning.
What people said
Recommends Steno · 2015-05 · Stack Overflow · on “Visual Studios 2013 - C++ Linker Error with openCV 3.0 Libs”
The porblem is solved now. I re-extract opencv and followed the steps of the following two links: Install OpenCV 3.0 on Windows 8 [this video] Create an Visual Studio (2013) Project with openCV [LINK]
Recommends Dvir · 2015-07 · Stack Overflow · on “Cannot Import External Library”
Please re-extract opencv and follow the steps of the following two links: Install OpenCV 3.0 on Windows 8 [this video] Create an Visual Studio (2013) Project with openCV [LINK] Let me know if that works for you..
Recommends Luke Vincent · 2015-10 · Stack Overflow · on “Can't import cv2; "DLL load failed"”
Ok so I've got it working by completely uninstalling everything and starting from the beginning with Python 2.7.10. It simply just does not work with Python 3. For clarity on what I did I followed these two videos in the order I'm posting them: How to install opencv + dependencies [LINK] How to set up the path variable [this video]
Cites Atlas7 · 2015-05 · Stack Overflow · on “How do I install Python OpenCV through Conda?”
I have summarized my now fully working solution, OpenCV-Python - How to install OpenCV-Python package to Anaconda (Windows) [LINK] . Nevertheless I've copied and pasted the important bits to this post. At the time of writing I was using Windows 8.1, 64-bit machine, Anaconda/ Python 2.x. (see notes below - this works also for Windows 10, and likely Python 3.x too). NOTE 1: as mentioned mentioned by @great_raisin [LINK] (thank you) in comment section however, this solution appears to also work for Windows 10. NOTE 2: this will probably work for Anaconda/Python 3.x too. If you are using Windows 10 and Anaconda/Python 3.x, and this solution works, please add a comment below. Thanks! (Update: not