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frogLuan
frogLuan

Reputation: 191

How to build openCV with GTK support on Mac

I pip installed opencv-python in python3.6 on my mac. import cv2 works fine, except when I tried to do cv2.imshow(), it says OpenCV Error: Unspecified error (The function is not implemented. Rebuild the library with Windows, GTK+ 2.x or Carbon support Can someone give me a specific walk through about how to do rebuild the library please?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 836

Answers (1)

OneCricketeer
OneCricketeer

Reputation: 191874

Did you read the PyPi page?

(emphasis added)

IMPORTANT NOTE

MacOS and Linux wheels have currently some limitations:

  • video related functionality is not supported (not compiled with FFmpeg)
  • for example cv2.imshow() will not work (not compiled with GTK+ 2.x or Carbon support)

So, you are welcome to compile it yourself, I guess, but even those builds are listed as failing.

You could use homebrew to install opencv, though not sure how that's compiled

Upvotes: 1

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