Compiling OpenCV 3 on Jetson TX2

These days I am working with a Jetson TX2 from Nvidia. It is a very powerful tiny computer, featuring a Tegra GPU with 256 cores. It allows me to run algorithms for mapping and visual localisation in real-time for PARA.

What you see is the development board, the card is actually only the part with the heat-spreader. It is the size of a credit card.

Jetson TX2

Here is my cmake command to compile OpenCV3:

cmake \
    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
    -DBUILD_PNG=OFF \
    -DBUILD_TIFF=OFF \
    -DBUILD_TBB=OFF \
    -DBUILD_JPEG=OFF \
    -DBUILD_JASPER=OFF \
    -DBUILD_ZLIB=OFF \
    -DBUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF \
    -DBUILD_opencv_java=OFF \
    -DBUILD_opencv_python2=ON \
    -DBUILD_opencv_python3=OFF \
    -DENABLE_PRECOMPILED_HEADERS=OFF \
    -DWITH_OPENCL=OFF \
    -DWITH_OPENMP=OFF \
    -DWITH_FFMPEG=ON \
    -DWITH_GSTREAMER=ON \
    -DWITH_GSTREAMER_0_10=OFF \
    -DWITH_CUDA=ON \
    -DENABLE_FAST_MATH=1 \
    -DCUDA_FAST_MATH=1 \
    -DWITH_CUBLAS=1 \
    -DWITH_GTK=ON \
    -DWITH_VTK=OFF \
    -DWITH_TBB=ON \
    -DWITH_1394=OFF \
    -DWITH_OPENEXR=OFF \
    -DCUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR=/usr/local/cuda-9.0 \
    -DCUDA_ARCH_BIN=6.2 \
    -DCUDA_ARCH_PTX="" \
    -DINSTALL_C_EXAMPLES=OFF \
    -DINSTALL_TESTS=OFF \
    -DBUILD_PERF_TESTS=OFF \
    -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF \
    ../

And when the task is finished, run:

make -j4
sudo make install

It will compile fast because the tests and examples are OFF and the library will be CUDA enabled with the latest version from JetPack (9.0). I hope it will help someone out there :).