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

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agnul picture agnul · Sep 20, 2010 · Viewed 36.3k times · Source

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 (OpenCV REQUIRED)
...
TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES (my-executable ${OpenCV_LIBS})

but this results in dynamically linked libraries. How do I link with static libraries?

Answer

bcook picture bcook · Nov 14, 2014

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)

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