Building Computer Vision Projects with OpenCV 4 and C++

Creating a library

CMake allows us to create libraries used by the OpenCV build system. Factorizing shared code among multiple applications is a common and useful practice in software development. In big applications, or common code shared in multiple applications, this practice is very useful. In this case, we do not create a binary executable, but instead we create a compiled file that includes all the functions, classes, and so on. We can then share this library file with other applications without sharing our source code.

CMake includes the add_library function to this end:

# Create our hello library add_library(Hello hello.cpp hello.h) # Create our application that uses our new library add_executable(executable main.cpp) # Link our executable ...