Install OpenCV - C++ with Visual Studio 2017 on Windows PC

Quick setup of OpenCV C++ on Windows machine using Visual Studio environment.
Follow the install guide at my blog:

For any suggestions or queries, please Comment below.

[ibrahimyazicii]

probably the most straight forward tutorial on installing opencv alongside with visual studio. thank you very much

[mingyyu]

Oh my god I can't express how grateful I am! Been trapped in this for a whole day until I saw your video which saved my life!

[tatomar]

I love you mate, I don't know what I did, but after one month of trying to get this to work it finally worked, I was able to display an image, seriously, you're incredible THANK YOU!!!

[xxinae]

You are the intelligent, I struggled for it a week and now it works. THANK YOU SO MUCH MATE.

[waferberry]

Sir, you saved me since I am very struggling several days. Thank you.

[malva]

THE ABSOLUTE GOAT OF THE OPENCV COMMUNITY. THANK YOU.

[Bali]

Great video! If you have a DLL missing error simply restart Visual Studio.

[MT]

You are a lifesaver! I was stuck trying to install opencv with cmake for two days...

[migueln]

As so many others have said, thank you for this tutorial! I've been through a heck of a time trying to get anything with OpenCV to build, and the issue was about your comment that the DLL/lib with the "d" was for debug mode (I was linking to the other one and still getting all kinds of LINK2019 errors, but now I can finally get started with the actual code! :)

[_Junkers]

Thanks for the video. One thing worth noting, I had to restart VS to get it to recognize the added paths.

[mohamedelmaghraby]

Thank You Shubham, your presentation is very straightforward. Very logical step-by-step instructions to help start coding.

[zbicajnik]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!
1 year ago I had many problems instaling openCV on VS 2015. I was afraid i will have similar problems again.
You saved me much time :)

[SuperRobertpolson]

Thanks for this tuto, after a whole day of trying to use OPENCV lib I succeeded thanks to you !

[danieltrzcinski]

Me and my engineering thesis, we both love you very much :D

[onehunderedthousandsubswit]

you need to turn off "precompiled headers" in the project properties so the error disappears. I had the same problem and did that, and it worked!!

[hugobrian]

I was unable to run with the newer versions of opencv. But with version 3.2.0 together with Visual Studio 2019 it works perfectly.

[alicem]

Thanks! It's working for me on Visual Studio 2022.

[sunnybhagia]

You rock man! you are the savior!! :) Needed opencv to run on Windows urgently for a project!!!

[byoxlymed]

Thank you for the video, it was really helpful. But do we have to follow these steps every time we make a new project? Isn't there a way to have these things set once and for all?

[Sudhir]

Thank you Shubham, This really helped a lot.I tried a lot of tutorials but they didn't worked .This one worked for me:)