Installing openCV 2.4.2 on Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)

Question

I'm trying to install openCV 2.4.2 (not the newest version but stable version compatible with newer OS X according to several sources) on Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). I have tried installing from source and using homebrew but neither works. I get the following error when I try installing it:

build Marieke$ make
[ 25%] Building CXX object modules/ts/CMakeFiles/opencv_ts.dir/src/precomp.cpp.o
In file included from /users/Marieke/Downloads/OpenCV-2.4.2/modules/ts/src/precomp.cpp:1:
In file included from /users/Marieke/Downloads/OpenCV-2.4.2/modules/ts/src/precomp.hpp:2:
In file included from /users/Marieke/Downloads/OpenCV-2.4.2/modules/ts/include/opencv2/ts/ts.hpp:40:
/users/Marieke/Downloads/OpenCV-2.4.2/modules/ts/include/opencv2/ts/ts_gtest.h:1657:13: fatal error: 
      'tr1/tuple' file not found
#   include <tr1/tuple>  // NOLINT
        ^
1 error generated.
make[2]: *** [modules/ts/CMakeFiles/opencv_ts.dir/src/precomp.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [modules/ts/CMakeFiles/opencv_ts.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

I don't know how to solve this and I have tried several things already (I do now have newest versions of Xcode, cmake, ffmpeg, faac, faad, qt, ...) so if anybody can help me, that would be much appreciated, thanks!

Answer 1

Run the following commands assuming you have brew installed.

brew tap homebrew/science
brew install opencv