How to compile OpenCV with libjpeg-turbo?

c++ opencv libjpeg-turbo
kvaruni picture kvaruni · May 5, 2012 · Viewed 12.2k times · Source

I am using OpenCV 2.3.1 on OS X Lion in one of my C++ projects. While my project works great as-is, it depends heavily on JPEG decoding and encoding. I would like to gain a speedup by using libjpeg-turbo, but I cannot find the correct way to link with libjpeg-turbo. Depending on my hackery attempts and which files I edit, I either end up with compiling errors or with a useless OpenCV library (everything compiles correctly, but I cannot open or write JPEG files, though no errors appear in the C++ project).

Can anyone explain how you can compile OpenCV with libjpeg-turbo for faster JPEG decoding/encoding?

Answer

Andrey Kamaev picture Andrey Kamaev · May 5, 2012

To build OpenCV 2.4.0 with libjpeg-turbo you need:

  1. build libjpeg-turbo as a static library
  2. configure OpenCV with the following command:

cmake -DWITH_JPEG=ON -DBUILD_JPEG=OFF -DJPEG_INCLUDE_DIR=/path/to/libjepeg-turbo/include/ -DJPEG_LIBRARY=/path/to/libjpeg-turbo/lib/libjpeg.a /path/to/OpenCV

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