About Makefile can't find libraries

Question

The Exception is here:

g++ -L/usr/local/lib -I./include -I. -lopencv_core -lopencv_highgui -lopencv_imgproc main.o ColorTransfer.o
main.o: I         


        

Answer 1

You really should pay attention to the order of arguments to g++ ; it matters a lot (libraries should go last in good order - highest level to lowest level).

Use  make -p to learn about rules known to make.... Then improve your Makefile as follow

 CXX=g++
 CXXFLAGS= -I./include -I. -g -Wall
 LDLIBS= -L./lib -lopencv_core -lopencv_highgui -lopencv_imgproc

 all: ColorTransfer

 ColorTransfer: main.o ColorTransfer.o
           $(LINK.cc)  $^ $(LDLIBS) -o $@

 # etc....

I leave you to correct the other lines of your Makefile ... See also this answer ...

^{I corrected my make rules above : $^ has to be before $(LDLIBS) !}

BTW, remake is a nice tool to debug Makefile-s; for instance, with remake -x