Where is the lib folder (or its replacement) in the current OpenCV?

Question

I\'m following a book written for the older version of OpenCV (OpenCV 2 Computer Vision, by PACT) and it tells me to include the lib folder in my Visual Studio 2013 Property Man

Answer 1

As an update to Nikita's awnser: There is a cmake build bug where the x64 folder will not be created if OpenCV_RUNTIME is not set. This will happen if you build an old OpenCV (e.g. <= 3.2.0) with a newer Visual Studio Version than was available at that time (e.g. Visual Studio 2017)

To fix this, add the correct MSVC_VERSION elseif-cases in both ./cmake/OpenCVDetectCXXCompiler.cmake and the ./cmake/templates/OpenCVConfig.root-WIN32.cmake.in (or ./cmake/OpenCVConfig.cmake in < v3.2.0) files:

[...]
elseif(MSVC_VERSION EQUAL 1900)
 set(OpenCV_RUNTIME vc14)
# old version ends here with endif()
elseif(MSVC_VERSION GREATER 1909 AND MSVC_VERSION LESS 1920)
  set(OpenCV_RUNTIME vc15)
elseif(MSVC_VERSION GREATER 1919 AND MSVC_VERSION LESS 1930)
  set(OpenCV_RUNTIME vc16)
endif()
[...]