CMake option to prefer static libs

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Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately, this is not working for me. I have the shared as well as the static libraries in my lib-directory. Setting OpenCV_STATIC to ON does not help. A quick check with tool -L reveals that the created binary still requires multiple OpenCV-dylib.

unfortunately now, unclear, what you did, exactly.

also, even if you use dynamic linking, there still will be .a "stub" libs. (very small ones). maybe you confuse those whith the "real" static ones ?

So, I installed OpenCV using brew with the --build-from-source flag. This actually builds dynamic and static libs. It explicitly states cmake .. -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELEASE=-DNDEBUG. After this was done, I ran my own CMake build script, which uses

set(OpenCV_STATIC ON)
find_package(OpenCV Required)

The code builds and links without any problems but when I check the binary's dependencies with

otool -L binary

the libs I use are still listed as libopencv....dylib.

sorry, i can't help at all with apple specific problems. (and to my knowledge, there is no support for brew from opencv at all)

Thanks for your time, even though I think, this is unrelated to macOS. CMake is able to locate the libraries properly and the static versions are there as well. For some reason, the find_package simply prefers the dylibs, even though the OpenCV_STATIC-flag is set.