This week in shop, I worked on installing OpenCV onto the windows desktop. While installing most things on windows is as simple as pressing a button, installing OpenCV and enabling use for IDEs such as Visual Studio code takes a lot more effort. I had to use CMake and MingW to compile OpenCV. MingW is a c++ compiler that will allow me to run the code for my projects that are coded in c++. CMake is used to generate source code for complex applications. I have not succeeded in either of these pursuits (Getting c++ code to compile and installing OpenCV), but through my extensive research and attempts to fix small bugs, I now feel more confident in my ability to use these applications.
