Setting up Emgu CV and IronPython

To use Emgu CV with IronPython, please follow the steps below:

• Download IronPython Binary from its official web page http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython

• Extract the IronPython Binary to a folder

• Install OpenCV
  • On Windows, copy the required OpenCV 1.1 dlls to the same Folder, please remember to install MSVCRT 8.0 as well
  • On Linux, just install OpenCV package

• Copy Emgu.CV.dll, Emgu.Util.dll, ZedGraph.dll and zlib.net.dll to the same Folder

• Copy EmguInit.py to the same Folder. The EmguInit.py contains the following code

import clr
clr.AddReferenceToFile("Emgu.CV.dll")
from Emgu.CV import *
from Emgu.CV.UI import *
from System import *

• Run the ipy.exe program. (On Mono, call "mono ipy.exe")

• From the IronPython command line, run the following command:

import EmguInit
from EmguInit import *

• You are ready to go. The next step you might want to try is the Face Detection from IronPython example.