Open up a terminal and create your virtual environment. The first thing we are going to do is setup our virtual environment. I’ll also be setting up my system with Python 2.7 and OpenCV 2.4.X however, you can use the same instructions to setup your environment with Python 3 and OpenCV as well, you’ll just need to change the paths to the Python and OpenCV files. These installation instructions and associated screenshots were gathered on my OSX machine, but these instructions will work on both Linux and Windows (for Windows you’ll have to change the various paths to files of course, but that’s okay).

I’m also going to assume that you have virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper installed as well. The rest of this blog post will assume that you have already installed OpenCV and the appropriate Python bindings on your system.

There is a certain calming serenity that comes with watching a thunderstorm roll in - and hopefully the rest of this guide gives you some calming serenity yourself when you go to setup P圜harm to play nice with OpenCV and virtual environments. And over the past two years the development environments between the two have become horribly out of sync and almost unusable.Īs I sat down Sunday night, looking out at the anvil-shaped thunderclouds rolling in across the Long Island sound, I took a second and sipped some tea (spiked with some peppermint schnapps it is the weekend, of course) from my mug and watched as the lighting danced haphazardly across the sky. While I use my 13in MacBook Pro while I travel, I have a second MacBook Pro that I use on a daily basis as my main development system. And to be honest, I was considering rebuilding the development environment on my travel system for awhile now. No worries though, I use Carbon Copy Cloner and Backblaze, so no data was lost. Apparently, the 13in MacBook Pro that I use when I’m traveling decided to shit the bed. Reconfiguring and reinstalling OSX on your MacBook Pro.

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