diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 79e127764..2210586f6 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -31,10 +31,17 @@ $ cmake -DOPENCV_EXTRA_MODULES_PATH=/modules -DBUILD_opencv_lega ``` If you prefer using the gui version of cmake (cmake-gui), then, you can add `opencv_contrib` modules within `opencv` core by doing the following: + 1. start cmake-gui + 2. select the opencv source code folder and the folder where binaries will be built (the 2 upper forms of the interface) + 3. press the `configure` button. you will see all the opencv build parameters in the central interface + 4. browse the parameters and look for the form called `OPENCV_EXTRA_MODULES_PATH` (use the search form to focus rapidly on it) + 5. complete this `OPENCV_EXTRA_MODULES_PATH` by the proper pathname to the `/modules` value using its browse button. + 6. press the `configure` button followed by the `generate` button (the first time, you will be asked which makefile style to use) + 7. build the `opencv` core with the method you chose (make and make install if you chose Unix makfile at step 6)