OpenCV- Working with OpenCV

alright it took me a while before posting this. for OPENCV 2.3.1 and Visual studio 2010 Professional on a windows 7 64 bit environment Download The "super pack" and unzip to "C:\OPENCV" it seems you can only get the source of opencv and need to compile it with CMAKE. very straight forward. download CMAKE and use the command prompt to enter CMAKE CMAKELIST.txt at the opencv directory Open  "ALL_BUILD" by double clicking - opens up visual studio Compile it and wait. (took a minute) go to properties and select the release version and compile again (took another minute) your all set with the opencv installation "c:\opencv\build" create an empty visual studio "win32 console application" Click on Configuration Properties->VC++ Directories, and edit the Include Directories. Add: C:\opencv\build\common\tbb30_20110427oss\include (UPDATE) C:\opencv\build\include Click on Configuration Properties->VC++ Directories, and