Problems Setting up 64 bit OpenCV

If you've been following the Game Player project I've been blogging about you'll know I has some trouble getting the 64 bit libraries of OpenCV to link with my project and had to stick with the 32 bit ones. Here I'll go into more details about the problem and hopefully find a solution.

First a little bit of background information on my system:

• Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
• OpenCV 2.4.2 pre-compiled binaries
• Netbeans 7.0.1
• Java 1.6 (not sure of bitness)
• MinGW-32 C Compiler with gcc version 4.5.2