How to use/install OpenCV with Indigo?
Hi,
I know that this question have been asked so many times and I have seen many threads about this topic but still I haven't found a tutorial or a thread that answer these questions:
- In order to use ROS Indigo with OpenCV, do I have to install OpenCV separately? if so, which version?
- Is there is a problem if I install first ROS and then OpenCV? or the other way around? which is the right way?
- Then, how do I link the OpenCV libraries in ROS code?
I also found this thread:
http://answers.ros.org/question/18510...
where @fergs says that the right way to do it is using the system OpenCV rather than the one built for ROS. I believe that opencv2 is the one built for ROS and libopencv-dev is the OpenCV system. Then my question is: If I haven't installed OpenCV and I have ROS Indigo installed in my computer then what are the steps I need to do in order to use OpenCV with Indigo in the right way?
I forget to mention that I also downloaded and compiled vision_opencv to use cv_bridge believing that with that I could use some OpenCV's functions without the need to install the OpenCV system. Now I believe that the cv_bridge package needs OpenCV system in order to work and cv_bridge it is just a package that is used as a bridge between ROS and OpenCV.
Best,
