I have a version of OpenCV built with MinGW and I'm trying to include it in a Visual Studio project. I have the dlls and the header files, however no lib files were provided. Only dll.a files. I tried pointing the linker additional dependencies setting to the dll.a files however I still get unresolved external symbol errors.
How do I use this version of OpenCV if it doesn't have the lib files?
Note: I should mention, I'm trying to use this specific build because it is x86, which is what I need for this project, and the official site doesn't seem to provide x86 builds.