VisionWorks Toolkit Reference

December 18, 2015 | 1.2 Release

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Windows Installation

Prerequisites

Before installing NVIDIA® VisionWorks™, ensure you have met the following prerequisites:

  • You have admin privileges.
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 is installed on your system.
  • NVIDIA® CUDA® is installed on your system.
Note
See Supported Software in the release notes for the specific library versions required.

Installation instructions

The following sections contain detailed instructions for the installation of NVIDIA® VisionWorks™ and its dependencies on Windows OS. These instructions use the following variables:

  • <ver> is the version number of the VisionWorks installation package.
  • <VisionWorks_INSTALL_DIR> specifies the full path to the installation directory of VisionWorks.

1. CUDA Installation

Download and install the CUDA 7.0 Windows package from NVIDIA CUDA Downloads.

More information about CUDA is available in the NVIDIA CUDA Documentation.

2. VisionWorks Installation

NVIDIA provides VisionWorks as an installation package named VisionWorks-<ver>-win64.exe. Run the application and install VisionWorks to the desired folder.

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Installation wizard greeting.

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Accept license agreement.

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Specify the desired folder to install to (<VisionWorks_INSTALL_DIR>).

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Select Start menu folder.

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Select components that will be installed.

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Installation is ongoing.

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Installation is completed.

At this point, the VisionWorks libraries, headers, samples, and documentation (and some extra files) are installed to your computer. The following table shows where the VisionWorks components are located, relative to the installation directory.

Component name Installed Location
Documentation <VisionWorks_INSTALL_DIR>\share\visionworks\docs
Header files <VisionWorks_INSTALL_DIR>\include
Pre-trained classifiers <VisionWorks_INSTALL_DIR>\share\visionworks\data
Shared libraries <VisionWorks_INSTALL_DIR>\bin
Source code for samples and demos <VisionWorks_INSTALL_DIR>\share\visionworks\sources

After VisionWorks installation please refer to Windows: Building and Running Samples and Demos for information about building samples and demos.

Uninstall Instructions

In this section uninstallation of VisionWorks and CUDA is described.

Uninstall VisionWorks

VisionWorks can be removed via the Windows Control Panel. Under the Programs and Features heading, search for NVIDIA VisionWorks and click on Uninstall/Change.

Uninstall CUDA

For the instructions on uninstalling CUDA please refer to the official documentation: NVIDIA CUDA Getting Started Guide for Windows.