CMake has the ability to search our dependencies and external libraries, giving us the ability to build complex projects, depending on the external components in our projects, and add some requirements.
In this book, the most important dependency is, of course, OpenCV, and we will add it to all of our projects:
cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.0)
PROJECT(Chapter2)
# Requires OpenCV
FIND_PACKAGE( OpenCV 4.0.0 REQUIRED )
# Show a message with the opencv version detected
MESSAGE("OpenCV version : ${OpenCV_VERSION}")
# Add the paths to the include directories/to the header files
include_directories(${OpenCV_INCLUDE_DIRS})
# Add the paths to the compiled libraries/objects
link_directories(${OpenCV_LIB_DIR})
# Create a variable called SRC
SET(SRC main.cpp)
# Create our executable
ADD_EXECUTABLE(${PROJECT_NAME...