32-bit and 64-bit dlls
We provide a set of libraries to develop specialized applications for optics. I am using OpenCV for some image processing functions.
The way OpenCV is built, dll names are the same for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. This makes is necessary to either replicate the dlls to every application folder (making the use of dlls pointless) or switching the system PATH in to select the right "bitness" of dlls for each application. It would be much better if the 64-bit versions had "64" appended to the name (and for consistency, "32" in the name of the 32-bit versions.)
I have had a go at rebuilding the dlls from source, but figuring out how to rename the outputs seems hopeless. All of the dependencies would have to change as well, and though I have encountered CMake-based builds in other projects, this one seems much more complicated than I would have expected. Can someone suggest how to accomplish what I need to do here?
hmm, static linking might be more work (you have to care about zlib and whatnot), but it essentially avoids your problem.