OpenCV has wheels built for all common platforms so it should be fine now. If your platform or python version is too new/old/unsupported then yeah, you can forget about building it and use another platform/python version.
To be honest, it's always this dice roll with most things on pypi. If there are wheels for you, golden. If not, you better hope it's a pure python package or it doesn't pull any outside libs. Things are getting better though with solutions like cibuildwheel.
To be honest, it's always this dice roll with most things on pypi. If there are wheels for you, golden. If not, you better hope it's a pure python package or it doesn't pull any outside libs. Things are getting better though with solutions like cibuildwheel.