Is it possible to use OpenCvSharp with AnyCPU configuration? about opencvsharp

[shimat]

Maybe not. OpenCvSharp depends on target platform of native OpenCV DLL.
When your machine is x86 and native OpenCV libraries are x86, you can use AnyCPU configuration. The program will work successfully. But it will crash on other x64 machine.
I think it is recommended to specify target platform.

[AndreyAkinshin]

Please, look to the Tesseract (https://github.com/charlesw/tesseract) soltuion. This library also has separated native binary for x86 and x64: https://github.com/charlesw/tesseract/tree/master/src/lib/TesseractOcr
But the core of the library dynamically loads binary for target platform with help of the WindowsLibraryLoader (https://github.com/charlesw/tesseract/blob/master/src/Tesseract/Interop/WindowsLibraryLoader.cs). This way works perfectly for AnyCPU. So, can you try to apply similar approach in OpenCvSharp. That would be really cool.

[shimat]

The Tesseract wrapper implementation is excellent and informative for me. Thank you for your information.

To support Mono is a concern. This function must be enabled only for original .NET Framework on Windows.

[AndreyAkinshin]

Ok, I see. However, what if we supplement the Tesseract.Interop approach by cross-platform feature from this post: http://dimitry-i.blogspot.ru/2013/01/mononet-how-to-dynamically-load-native.html
What do you think?

[shimat]

Thank you for your additional information. The implementation seems to work fine.

My next fear factor is whether it works on other *nix OS, e.g. BSD, MacOSX. But frankly speaking, my priority of supporting Mono is low. I will care little for Mono at least for a while.

I schedule to release new packages with AnyCPU-support only for Windows in a few days.

[AndreyAkinshin]

I schedule to release new packages with AnyCPU-support only for Windows in a few days.

Great!

My next fear factor is whether it works on other *nix OS, e.g. BSD, MacOSX.

I'm now trying to implement this feature (cross-platrfomed LibraryLoader for x86 and x64) for Tesseract (charlesw/tesseract#23 (comment)). In the successful case, I can make pull-request in OpenCvSharp.

[shimat]

That's a great offer. Thanks a lot!

I released new packages in the last hour.