Learning OpenCV 4 Computer Vision with Python 3 - Third Edition

Using Homebrew with your own custom packages

Just in case you ever need to customize a package, Homebrew makes it easy to edit existing package definitions:

$ brew edit opencv

The package definitions are actually scripts in the Ruby programming language. Tips on editing them can be found on the Homebrew wiki page at https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Formula-Cookbook.md. A script may specify Make or CMake configuration flags, among other things.

To see which CMake configuration flags are relevant to OpenCV, refer to https://github.com/opencv/opencv/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt in the official OpenCV repository on GitHub.

After making edits to the Ruby script, save it.

The customized package can be treated as normal. For example, ...