Some open source projects like OpenCV are IDE friendly... thanks to build automation tools like CMake. Sure you can use good old make, but you can also load the

Some open source projects like OpenCV are IDE friendly... thanks to build automation tools like CMake. Sure you can use good old make, but you can also load the projects files into your favourite IDE to build. Easy. Other projects are unfortunately not. Say you want to build with Visual Studio. That means you have to manually configure the include/lib paths first, and probably build some libraries before building your main project, etc etc. Annoying.