I have problems getting a project started. I want to work with the library OpenCV in Python, using Visual Studio 2017 as IDE (on windows 10). I added Python extensions (e.g. Anaconda3 64 Bit) to VS via the VS Installer. After that, the struggle begins. Someone told me, Anaconda would be nice to handle multiple packages, so I opened the Python IDE window and set Anaconda as default. Then in the same window I clicked on packages. After executing
conda install -c conda-forge opencv
conda install -c conda-forge/label/gcc7 opencv
conda install -c conda-forge/label/broken opencv
with the text field above the listed packages I was able to see the opencv package in that list. But when I tried to import opencv in a new python file, it didn't work. (The package was not found)
I also tried to download the latest OpenCV version on the official site, but there I got a folder. I navigated throught this folder and found some .pyd (python extension) files. Can I include them in VS?
I hope anyone can help, thanks in advance!
You can use/try/check the Python Environment Tab (View, Other Windows, Python Environment) to install stuff to any "environment" you have installed:
No idea if it is more comfy or not - I generally use that to install missing dependencies (using pypi - not conda) and the search input to check if it went ok:
I mostly use the python 3.6 for dev - so not much installed over anaconda defaults.
HTH
I have installed opencv on my windows machine using python 3.6 without any issues, using:
pip install opencv-python
but when I try to import cv2 I get the following error
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
I have seen this post
It says cv2 doesn't work with python 3 I was wondering if this has been fixed or if there is a way around it
I took a lot of time to solve this error!
Run command
pip install opencv-contrib-python
You can download the latest OpenCV 3.2.0 for Python 3.6 on Windows 32-bit or 64-bit machine, look for file starts withopencv_python‑3.2.0‑cp36‑cp36m, from this unofficial site. Then type below command to install it:
pip install opencv_python‑3.2.0‑cp36‑cp36m‑win32.whl (32-bit version)
pip install opencv_python‑3.2.0‑cp36‑cp36m‑win_amd64.whl (64-bit version)
I think it would be easier.
Update on 2017-09-15:
OpenCV 3.3.0 wheel files are now available in the unofficial site and replaced OpenCV 3.2.0.
Update on 2018-02-15:
OpenCV 3.4.0 wheel files are now available in the unofficial site and replaced OpenCV 3.3.0.
Update on 2018-06-19:
OpenCV 3.4.1 wheel files are now available in the unofficial site with CPython 3.5/3.6/3.7 support, and replaced OpenCV 3.4.0.
Update on 2018-10-03:
OpenCV 3.4.3 wheel files are now available in the unofficial site with CPython 3.5/3.6/3.7 support, and replaced OpenCV 3.4.1.
Update on 2019-01-30:
OpenCV 4.0.1 wheel files are now available in the unofficial site with CPython 3.5/3.6/3.7 support.
Update on 2019-06-10:
OpenCV 3.4.6 and OpenCV 4.1.0 wheel files are now available in the unofficial site with CPython 3.5/3.6/3.7 support.
Update on 2023-02-11:
OpenCV 4.5.5 wheel files are now available in the unofficial site with CPython 3.7/3.8/3.9/3.10/3.11 support.
If you are using Anaconda with python 3.5, this is a problem in the Anaconda release. (Refer this issue)
You can fix this issue by copying python3.dll file to Anaconda3 folder (where python.exe is located)
How to get "python3.dll"
In cmd, type python --version to find whether your installation is 64-bit or 32-bit
download python 3.x embeddable zip file from here
Extract the zip file and copy python3.dll file to Anaconda3 folder
But if you can move to Anaconda with python 3.6 you will not face this issue. If it is possible for you, then it is the recommended way..
Recently I have faced the similar issue in Azure Windows Server 2012 r2 . Tried all option with and without Anaconda but none of them helped. After lot of findings I found that mfplat.dll was missing which is related to Window Media Service.
Hence you have to manually install the features so that you can get dll related to window media service.
1.Turn windows features on or off
2.Skip the roles screen and directly go to Feature screen
3.Select "Desktop Experience" under "User Interfaces and Infrastructure"
After this all required dll of media services for opencv would be available.
So if you are planning to run your code in cloud(Window Server) then please dont forget to select Desktop Experience feature.
I ran into this problem on Windows 10 (N) with a new Anaconda installation based on Python 3.7 (OpenCV version 4.0). None of the above advice helped (such as installing OpenCV from the unofficial site nor installing VC Redistributable).
I checked DLL dependencies of ...\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs\foo\Lib\site-packages\cv2\cv2.cp37-win_amd64.pyd using dumpbin.exe according to this github issue. I noticed a library MF.dll, which I figured out belongs to Windows Media Foundation.
So I installed Media Feature Pack for N versions of Windows 10 and voilà, the issue was resolved!
After spending too much time on this issue and trying out all different answers, here is what found:
The accepted answer by #thewaywewere is no longer applicable. I think this was applicable when opencv-python module still wasn't available.
This is indeed a bug in Anaconda 4.2 because they forgot to ship python3.dll. They have fixed this in next releases but unfortunately 4.2 is the last release with Python 3.5 as default. If you are stuck with Python 3.5 (for example VS2015 is only aware of versions up to 3.5) then you must manually download python3.dll as described in answer by #Ramesh-X.
If you can move on to Python 3.6 (which at present bit difficult if you are using OpenCV and VS2015) then just install latest Anaconda version and you don't have to deal with any of these.
There are many questions on that and many suggestions. None of them helped me for the recent Opencv 3.4.16 and Python 3.6/3.7.
Finally I switched to Pyhon 2.7.15 and installed opencv 3.1.0. The DLL-problem was solved.
When I look in cv2.pyd with dependency walker, the 3.1 has no dependency to one missing dll. Opencv 3.4 has this missing dependency to this dll:
API-MS-WIN-DOWNLEVEL-SHLWAPI-L1-1-0.DLL
may be this is the problem.
P.S.: I have Win7 pofessional 64Bit, 32Bit Python 2.7.15
Frankly there are a lot of very smart and complicated answers here. Mine is dumb and simple. I deleted my conda environment, re-installed from scratch, taking pains to install opencv first. This fixed my problems. Environments are meant to be temporary and diaphanous -- don't get too attached.
So if my environment was called fubar first make sure every instance is deactivated (including any IDEs that are using it). Then remove it:
conda remove --name fubar --all
Now I simply recreate my environment and add opencv first:
conda create --name fubar
conda activate fubar
conda install opencv
And then go from there. First open python and make sure import cv2 works. Then you should be on your way. Note I always (always) install Spyder last as it tends to screw things up when I don't.
Note, if that doesn't work, we have had some cases where people have to uninstall and reinstall Anaconda, and then things worked. Obviously a last resort.
In my case a major update of Windows 10 removed some Windows packages, so other methods (reinstalling opencv etc.) did not help. To fix it, install:
a) Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019
b) Media Feature Pack for N versions - needed only if you have Windows 10 N
Both need restart of PC.
I had the same issue when installing opencv 2.4.13 on Anaconda3 (Python 3.6)... I managed to fix this issue by reverting to Anaconda2 (Python 2.7)
this happens because the compiler or the interpreter is finding more than one package of the file, delete all the number of same package you have and then keep only one and then try to install. It serves
The issue is due to the missing python3.dll file in Anaconda3.
To fix the issue, you should simply copy the python3.dll to C:\Program Files\Anaconda3 (or wherever your Anaconda3 is installed).
You can get the python3.dll by downloading the binaries provided at the bottom of the Python's Release page and extracting the python3.dll from the ZIP file.
I had the same issue with python 3.6(Anaconda3) and OpenCV 3.4.1 for spyder to work. Even after copying cv2.pyd into Anaconda3 Users/home/Anaconda3/Lib/site-packages, it didn't work.
But found a solution
Later I installed OpenCV and Dlib on Anaconda and copied the generated cv2.cp36-win_amd64.pyd and dlib.cp36-win_amd64.pyd into Anaconda3 Users/home/Anaconda3/Lib/site-packages. These can be copied from environment folder C:\Users\home\Anaconda3\envs\opencv\Lib\site-packages.
Finally spyder started to work
I managed to get it to work by installing python 3.9.12 in a new environment (using conda), and then installing opencv in that environment. Because of my python version, opencv version 4.5.5 was installed instead of version 4.60.
(I had already updated VC2015-2022 and added the python3.dll to PATH; neither of these worked.)
I have the same problem. when I install WinPython programming, and run opencv after copy the cv2.pyd file from my opencv directory, it will be like this: C:\Users.....\Downloads\opencv\build\python\2.7\x64, x64 or x86 is depend on your 32 or 64 bit devices. and paste to C:\Users.....\Downloads\WinPython-64bit-3.5.4.1Qt5\python-3.5.4.amd64\Lib\site-packages, I prefer the previous python 3.5 than 3.6. Because when I "import cv2" installed (python 3.6) it shows directly: "ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found"
Then I install python 3.5 and open WinPyhton Command prompt and type "pip install opencv-python".
The command prompt download opencv automatically, it shows the process like this "Successfully installed opencv-python-3.3.0.10"
Finally, I try to run open cv by type "import cv2", it works
i try to type "cv2.version", and shows: '3.3.0'
Under Winpython : the Winpython-64bit-.../python_.../DLLs directory the file cv2.pyd should be renamed to _cv2.pyd
(base) C:\WINDOWS\system32>conda install C:\Users\Todd\Downloads\opencv3-3.1.0-py35_0.tar.bz2
I ran this command from anaconda terminal after I downloaded the version from
https://anaconda.org/menpo/opencv3/files
This is the only way I could get cv2 to work and I tried everything for two days.
If this helps someone, on official python 3.6 windows docker image, to make this thing work I had to copy following libraries from my desktop:
C:\windows\system32
aepic.dll
avicap32.dll
avifil32.dll
avrt.dll
Chakra.dll
CompPkgSup.dll
CoreUIComponents.dll
cryptngc.dll
dcomp.dll
devmgr.dll
dmenterprisediagnostics.dll
dsreg.dll
edgeIso.dll
edpauditapi.dll
edputil.dll
efsadu.dll
efswrt.dll
ELSCore.dll
evr.dll
ieframe.dll
ksuser.dll
mf.dll
mfasfsrcsnk.dll
mfcore.dll
mfnetcore.dll
mfnetsrc.dll
mfplat.dll
mfreadwrite.dll
mftranscode.dll
msacm32.dll
msacm32.drv
msvfw32.dll
ngcrecovery.dll
oledlg.dll
policymanager.dll
RTWorkQ.dll
shdocvw.dll
webauthn.dll
WpAXHolder.dll
wuceffects.dll
C:\windows\SysWOW64
aepic.dll
avicap32.dll
avifil32.dll
avrt.dll
Chakra.dll
CompPkgSup.dll
CoreUIComponents.dll
cryptngc.dll
dcomp.dll
devmgr.dll
dsreg.dll
edgeIso.dll
edpauditapi.dll
edputil.dll
efsadu.dll
efswrt.dll
ELSCore.dll
evr.dll
ieframe.dll
ksuser.dll
mfasfsrcsnk.dll
mfcore.dll
mfnetcore.dll
mfnetsrc.dll
mfplat.dll
mfreadwrite.dll
mftranscode.dll
msacm32.dll
msvfw32.dll
oledlg.dll
policymanager.dll
RTWorkQ.dll
shdocvw.dll
webauthn.dll
wuceffects.dll`
Please Remember if you want to install python package/libraries for windows,
you should always consider Python unofficial Binaries
Step 1:
Search for your package, download dependent version 2.7 or 3.6 you can find it under Downloads/your_package_version.whl its called python wheel
Step 2:
Now install using pip,
pip install ~/Downloads/your_packae_ver.whl
this will install without any error.
I had the same problem and spent 3 full days wrestling with it. I tried everything suggested: upgrading pip, updating Visual C++, updating Anaconda, manually downloading files and basically every solution I could find on the web. Here's what finally worked maybe it'll help someone else:
1- I ditched Python 3 and Anaconda-based downloads since I noticed they had several problems and downloaded Python 2.7.16 64-bits instead.
2- Navigated to where Pip was located on my drive (for me the path is C:\Python27\Scripts) highlighted the path by selecting it, and typed "cmd" then enter so the Command Prompt opens on that path (I noticed skipping this usually brings about a couple errors)
3- Updated Pip using python -m pip install --upgrade pip on the CMD (again, skipping this and not updating it didn't let this procedure go through)
4- Downloaded the appropriate Wheel file from https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#opencv (after trying several the one that worked for me was opencv_python-2.4.13.7-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl) I copy-pasted it to the same folder Pip was in (C:\Python27\Scripts for me) and then installed it through CMD using: pip install opencv_python-2.4.13.7-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl. Always through CMD opened on that path as showed in step 2
5- After step 4 when I imported OpenCV using import cv2 I didn't have the DLL error anymore but an error related to numpy (since I had just installed that version of Python and so Numpy wasn't installed yet). I installed numpy by typing pip install numpy and voilà ! The problem was solved and OpenCV imported correctly.
Hope this helps someone.
In my case, I had to install an older version of openCV (windows 10, Python 3.6.8)
pip install opencv-python==3.3.0.9
This error can be caused by missing the following dll
To have this dll install:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/mediafeaturepack
as already explained above
Running python 3.8.8 from windows 10 powershell from an anaconda 4.10.1 environment I installed opencv with
conda install opencv
I could import opencv no problem when I launched python from the command line.
However, when I tried to run code from inside pydev using the python interpreter for the specific anaconda environment I had activated, pydev couldn't find whichever dll it was looking for when importing opencv.
Setting the following environment variable resolved the issue:
CONDA_DLL_SEARCH_MODIFICATION_ENABLE=1
Source: PyDev/Eclipse not loading _mklinit when run from a Conda environment
Which points to this trouble shooting description for a different library loading issue: https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/troubleshooting.html#numpy-mkl-library-load-failed
If you are using a server or docker enviroment without a gui (e.g. Windows Core Server) make sure that you use the headless version of cv2:
pip install opencv-contrib-python-headless
I had the same problem, it seems openCV requires Windows Media Feature pack which is not installed on Windows 10 N by default, please install it using the following link:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/mediafeaturepack
Windows 11 N
This a final fix for the people who don't use anaconda.
simply there are missing DLL files, that's it
download the latest version of
https://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/
Then after you extract it search for .dll files and copy all of them and paste into C:\Windows\System32 and approve for replacing.
That's it !
Install python using:
pip install opencv-python(It will take the latest version)
Make sure opencv-python is installed in path(\Python\Python36\Lib\site-packages),
you will find cv2 folder over there.
To check the version of cv2:
import cv2
print(cv2.__version__)
I want to use "tkinter", "opencv" (cv2) and "numpy" in windows(8 - 64 bit and x64) with python2.7 - the same as I have running perfectly well in Linux (Elementary and DistroAstro) on other machines. I've downloaded the up to date Visual Studio and C++ compiler and installed these, as well as the latest version of PIP following error messages with the first attempts with PIP and numpy
first I tried winpython, which already has numpy present but this comes without tkinter, although openCV would install. I don't want to use qt.
so I tried vanilla Python, which installs to Python27. Numpy won't install with PIP or EasyInstall (unless it takes over an hour -same for SciPy), and the -.exe installation route for Numpy bombs becausee its looking for Python2.7 (not Python27). openCV won't install with PIP ("no suitable version")
extensive searches haven't turned up an answer as to how to get a windows Python 2.7.x environment with all three of numpy, tkinter and cv2 working.
Any help would be appreciated!
Finally did it with .whl files. Download them, copy to C:\python27\Scripts and then open "cmd" and navigate to that folder with "cd\" etc. Once there run:
pip install numpy-1.10.1+mkl-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl
for example.
In IDLE I then get:
import numpy
numpy.version
'1.10.1'
small remark: WinPython has tkinter, as it's included by Python Interpreter itself
I want to access some of the PyObjC routines using Enthought Python 7.3-2 (32 bit, OS X 10.8.3)
When I run the enpkg installer from the command line, I get a fair way through the install and then:
Error: could not resolve "pyobjc_framework_inputmethodkit" required by "pyobjc-2.3-1.egg"
So I tried Canopy 1.0 (64 bit, OS X, still a bit flakey) using the GUI package installer and I see the same message:
Action: install pyobjc-2.3-1.egg
The package manager has encountered error
Error: could not resolve "pyobjc_framework_inputmethodkit" required by "pyobjc-2.3-1.egg"
So it appears to be generic to Enthought python.
I'm assuming it's a problem with OS X 10.8.3 but does anyone know how to install PyObjC on Enthought python?
Thanks for the report.
Pyobjc is in Enthought's PyPI mirror rather than in the main Canopy/EPD repository. You can see this from the PyPI logo in package manager, or from enpkg -s pyobc at the command line. We are aware that our PyPI mirror is quite out of date; automating this is on our to-do list but will come after other more pressing improvements to our build and deployment system.
You should be able to install a newer version of pyobjc following these guidelines: Installing external packages into Canopy Python.
I have Windows Vista and am running Python 2.7. I am having trouble installing some Python libraries including, NumPy, SciPy, and pygame. I am currently trying to copy the NumPy file straight to my computer (C:\numpy) and then unziping the file there. In a command prompt I then run the code;
cd c:\numpy
python setup.py config
python setup.py install
When I get to the "python setup.py config" part, the command prompt says "this is the wrong setup.py file to run"
Any suggestions?
This is the ANSWER for installing numpy on Windows 8 64 bit.
All you need is:
1.Python, installed in your system, in my case its c:\Python27, its 2.7 version.
2.Install pip if not available.
download "numpy-1.9.2+mkl-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl" file for 64 bit, you can find this here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#numpy
if you don't find it there use mine at: https://github.com/pawanputtaswamy/Libs
How to install:
1.open command prompt (Windows + r and type cmd)
2.Go to pip directory, in my case (cd c:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe)
3.Run the following command: pip.exe install \numpy-1.9.2+mkl-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl
Done
Numpy, Scypy and pygame all have windows installers; You are advised to use these installers in favor of archive versions. Make sure you match the version (3.2, 2.7) and archetecture (i386 or x86_64) as the python binary you have installed.
Alternatively, depending on your time constraints and situation you could use Enthought's prepackaged python distribution for Windows. The free version:
http://www.enthought.com/products/epd_free.php
has everything you need except pygame which you should be able to install with easy_install once everything else is in place.
Open the Python shell and input as such:
>>> import pip
>>> pip.main(["install","numpy"])
In fact,the method of installing numpy is very easy and quick.First,make sure that Python has already been installed.Then,download the numpy module on sites,such as
http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/, which provides the numpy module for python2.6.
Finally,double click the module,the rest you have to do is just let it go on.and,it will be installed naturally.
Just go here http://continuum.io/downloads and download the graphical installer.
It will install Numpy, Scipy and a tonne of other useful stuff.
This is a screenshot that can help, Note that I use Ubuntu as operating System