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if your development environment does not have pkg-config and because of this the accepted Question feed
answer by karlphilip is not practical, or, you need to know the minimal set of libraries required to
link your application, then assuming code such as
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#include <cv.h>
#include <highgui.h>

int main()
{
return 0;
}

you can add library arguments from the following list sequentially from the top until you find the
minimal set of arguments that you need:

-lopencv_core
-lopencv_imgproc
-lopencv_highgui
-lopencv_ml
-lopencv_video
-lopencv_features2d
-lopencv_calib3d
-lopencv_objdetect
-lopencv_contrib
-lopencv_legacy
-lopencv_flann

For example, the C source code listed at the top of this post compiles and links cleanly with only

gcc hello.c -o hello \

-I /usr/include/opencv \
-L /usr/lib \
-lopencv_core \
-lopencv_imgproc

on my old x86_64 Ubuntu 12.04 box.

Assuming C++ code such as

#include "core/core.hpp"
#include "highgui/highgui.hpp"

using namespace cv;

using namespace std;

int main( int argc, char** argv )

{
return 0;
}

then you would compile and link with

g++ hello.cpp -o hello \

-I /usr/include/opencv2 \
-L /usr/lib \
-lopencv_core \
-lopencv_imgproc

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I tried compiling the g++ version from this guy's video youtube.com/watch?v=cgo0UitHfp8 on the command
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Nevermind, It's a missing windows dll file problem. Thank you for your above answer though. – luckyging3r
Feb 21 '17 at 4:20

I need to add opencv_contrib but it is not in the package list as i can see it using the command pkg-config --
libs opencv. – user8038009 Sep 24 '17 at 8:52

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I suggest you use CMake to compile OpenCV with G++ , this way is more suitable, I think.

4 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.1)
project(YOUR_PROJECT_NAME)

set(CMAKE_GXX_FLAGS "-Wall -Wextra -Wconversion -pedantic -std=gnu11")

find_package(OpenCV REQUIRED)

include_directories(${OpenCV_INCLUDE_DIRS})

add_executable(YOUR_EXCUTABLE YOUR_CODE_SOURCE_FILES)
target_link_libraries(YOUR_EXCUTABLE ${OpenCV_LIBS})

share improve this answer follow answered Mar 6 '19 at 15:17

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With this cmake file I had to change the includes to " #include "opencv2/core/core.hpp" #include
"opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp" – jjcf89 Aug 7 '19 at 21:45

@jjcf89 great, happy to help. The use of CMake is very suitable for compiling, you should really consider
using it. For me, it helped me a lot, and it's time saving too. – Sendjasni Nov 8 '19 at 14:08

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1. Download source files in OpenCV folder and install-opencv.sh script.

2. By running script file you automatically install needed files for opencv. Run the following code:
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chmod +x install-opencv.sh
./install-opencv.sh

In case if you install different version of the library please update the first line of version inside the
installation script. For more information use this tutorial. Compile it with the next line:

g++ `pkg-config --cflags opencv` example.cpp `pkg-config --libs opencv`

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