title: Configuring OpenCV with visual c++ 2008
body: <p>I am new to OpenCV , i was following <a href="http://www.hanckmann.net/?q=node/17" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.hanckmann.net/?q=node/17</a> tutorial to configure openCV, after configuring openCV , i get this error, could someone help me on this. </p>
  
  <p>this is where it explains how to configure openCV
  <a href="http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/VisualC++" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/VisualC++</a></p>
  
  <p>and this is the example code i was using. it gives the error fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'cvcam.lib'</p>
  
  <pre><code>#include "stdafx.h"
  #include &lt;cv.h&gt;
  #include &lt;cxcore.h&gt;
  #include &lt;highgui.h&gt;
  
  int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
  {
   IplImage *img = cvLoadImage("Image.bmp");
   cvNamedWindow("Image:",1);
   cvShowImage("Image:",img);
  
   cvWaitKey();
   cvDestroyWindow("Image:");
   cvReleaseImage(&amp;img);
   return 0;
  }
  </code></pre>