How do I tell cmake I want my project to link libraries statically?

Question

I\'m trying to build an OpenCV-based project using CMake, running on Linux. So far my CMakeLists.txt files looks something like

FIND_PACKAGE (Op         


        

Answer 1

Actually this issue seems to have already been fixed in the OpenCVConfig.cmake that comes with OpenCV. All you have to do is define OpenCV_STATIC in your CMakeLists.txt. I.e.

set(OpenCV_STATIC ON)
find_package(OpenCV REQUIRED)