I am currently working on a Play 2.1 project, in which requests to the web-service will handle downloading user-supplied images, re-sizing and re-cropping them, and also filtering out known bad photos (for example, we don't want users to upload company logos). We are trying to use OpenCV to handle the back-end work, but I can't seem to get IntelliJ to add the OpenCV jar in a way that works with the java project.
I've been able to build OpenCV from source, without issue. This left me with the following folder: /home/charles/opencv/release
Inside this folder, I have three files of interest:
- bin/opencv-246.jar
- lib/cv2.so
- lib/libopencv_java246.so
If I try to add the jar file to IntelliJ as a new Java library, it seemingly finds all the classes/methods, and I can write code using the auto-complete. I can also click on the respective classes or methods, and it brings me to the right files.
However, when I try to run the Play project, I get this error:
[info] Loading project definition from /home/charles/Github/ImageProject
[info] Set current project to ImageProject (in build file:/home/charles/Github/ImageProject/)
--- (Running the application from SBT, auto-reloading is enabled) ---
[info] play - Listening for HTTP on /0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:9000
Server started, use Alt+D to stop
[info] Compiling 1 Java source to /home/charles/Github/ImageProject/target/scala-2.10/classes...
[error] /home/charles/Github/ImageProject/app/controllers/Application.java:7: error: package org.opencv.core does not exist
[error] import org.opencv.core.Core;
[error] ^
I've also tried adding a copy of the jar file directly into the project (so putting opencv-246.jar into ImageProject/lib), and then adding the java library from that location instead. But that just leaves me with a different error:
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no opencv_java246 in java.library.path
I suspect part of the problem may be related to the native libraries that the Java OpenCV wrapper uses (file 2 or 3 above). In Eclipse, when you add a jar file, you can explicitly set the native library location, which makes OpenCV work fine. I've read suggestions of using this to fix the problem:
-Djava.library.path=/home/charles/opencv/release/lib
But that doesn't seem to work (though maybe I'm setting it in the wrong place? I've tried setting it as a JVM parameter in the run config for the project, and in the IDE settings, but neither seem to be used or respected).
Note: Just to clarify again, this is a Play2 project, not an Android project. There seems to be some Android-specific help out there, that isn't relevant in this case.
This feels like it should be a rather straight forward thing, but I've been spending several days trying to find an answer at this point, and still have nothing. Any ideas?
Additional details: I also tried following the "Running SBT samples" of the OpenCV documentation here: http://docs.opencv.org/doc/tutorials/introduction/desktop_java/java_dev_intro.html
And I also get a similar error:
charles@charles-VirtualBox:~/JavaSample$ sbt run
[info] Loading project definition from /home/charles/JavaSample/project
[info] Set current project to JavaSample (in build file:/home/charles/JavaSample/)
[info] Compiling 1 Java source to /home/charles/JavaSample/target/scala-2.10/classes...
[info] Running HelloOpenCV
Hello, OpenCV
[error] (run-main) java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no opencv_java246 in java.library.path
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no opencv_java246 in java.library.path
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1856)
at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:845)
at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1084)
at HelloOpenCV.main(HelloOpenCV.java:47)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
[trace] Stack trace suppressed: run last compile:run for the full output.
java.lang.RuntimeException: Nonzero exit code: 1
at scala.sys.package$.error(package.scala:27)
[trace] Stack trace suppressed: run last compile:run for the full output.
[error] (compile:run) Nonzero exit code: 1
[error] Total time: 2 s, completed Jul 17, 2013 5:11:39 PM