20-03-2012, 12:05 PM
Installing OpenCV on ARM board
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1. Introduction
This document detailed the steps of installing OpenCV on the ARM board which is running an embedded linux, so that you can run those powerful OpenCV routines on the arm board. Since from OpenCV2.1, cmake is employed to configure the installation of OpenCV on various of platforms, in this guide, we will talk about how to use cmake to install OpenCV on ARM board.
Actually, we not just compiling the OpenCV source code with cross-platform compiler “arm-linux-gcc” and then generated the OpenCV library and include files compatible with the embedded linux system on ARM, such libraries files should also be copied to be arm board. Our own OpenCV program is actually compiled on the ubuntu system with cross-compilers linked with such libraries, and then the generated executable binaries will be copied to the arm board to run.
4. Communication between the arm-board and PC(running ubuntu)
a. Install mincom (an application for controlling serial port on ubuntu) on your unbutu system either by typing “sudo apt-get install minicom” in the terminal or install it from the synaptic package manager.