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J. Russell
J. Russell

Reputation: 65

How would I go about compiling an OpenCV program WITHOUT linking?

I've taken the "edge" sample file and moved the appropriate source files into the directory, changing #include(s) where needed to account for the directory structure and not being setup with the library and all that. The goal being to make a more portable batch of code to try some things out. I was wondering, given the list of linker errors (lots of undefined this and that.) Would it A, be possible to take the source and include it all in a way that I won't need linking? And if so B, what would be the suggested route to find which source files have the right code to counter all the undefined stuff I get while linking?

I understand this is a general question, but it requires a general answer and I haven't seen anyone answer this here or anywhere else. I would think it's entirely possible though, OpenCV is BSD and all the source to compile it into the library is available, so I would imagine you could skip the linking to an external library step if you had the source for the library in your project code. Thanks a million to whoever can help me out or lead me into the right direction, it's much appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 293

Answers (1)

LovaBill
LovaBill

Reputation: 5139

If your project requires fully open source code, you can do what you want. Of course, to isolate what you need from OpenCV will be a demanding task. To do that, you need to manually locate the files including the missing objects. In MS explorer you search using "inside the file" query, in linux console you can use "find | grep" combo command.

I sometimes move source files(opencv/modules/*/src) locally in my projects to customize some functions. I also keep the linked libraries which compiler puts second in priority and they become inactive but they still exists in their original form occupying some negligible useless MBs.

Upvotes: 1

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