Visual Studio has pretty good native support for CMake. Going from Make to CMake would have been a better decision than trying to use Bazel. There's a standard

Visual Studio has pretty good native support for CMake. Going from Make to CMake would have been a better decision than trying to use Bazel. There's a standard find_package/find_library macro and definitions for OpenCV (which is your use case here). Then use either Microsoft's C++ package manger or Conan to actually install the libraries.