Use static build instead of shared build of OpenCV in my CMake project

Question

My CMake project uses OpenCV, however, it links to the shared build, which requires the OpenCV DLLs for my executable to work. How can I tell CMake to use the static build of OpenCV instead?

What should I change in my CMakeList.txt file? This is how it looks right now:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
project (Tutorial)
find_package (OpenCV REQUIRED)
add_executable (Tutorial WIN32 main.cpp)
target_link_libraries (Tutorial ${OpenCV_LIBS})

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

I found the answer, from https://stackoverflow.com/a/26920527/492336:

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)

This worked for me, although I needed to specify the CRT to be static as well (because static OpenCV is linked against static CRT).

Use static build instead of shared build of OpenCV in my CMake project

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