I know this subject has been brought up before, I've tried all the fixes I've found to no avail. When i try to import cv2 i get the message:
DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
I'm running python 2.7 on windows 7, 64bit. I've tried installing cv2 using:
python -m pip install cv2
as well as installing the .whl file (opencv_python-2.4.12-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl) the same way. Both times, cmd prompt tells me they've installed correctly, but I still can't import cv2.
The next thing i tried was downloading the latest version of opencv and following the directions here to install it.
I also tried including the paths to the .pyd file in my environment variables:
c:\opencv\build\python\2.7\x64; c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages
I still get the error upon trying to import cv2:
DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
next, i tried the solved fix proposed in this thread next, I've tried the solved fix proposed in this thread ImportError: DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application
However, i had no opencv binaries path that looked like (C:\opencv\build\bin\Release) so i added two paths, c:\opencv\build\x64\vc12\bin and c:\opency\build\vc11\bin to my PATH environment variables. However, this has no effect either and i still get the error upon trying to import cv2. what could i be doing wrong?
