Keeping C OpenCV applications building

The OpenCV people decided to break their C API. Except (at least as of OpenCV 3.x) they didn't really remove or deprecate the API, they just stopped testing it. So when things start to break, you just get errors for no reason. Case in point: I have an application that now throws linker error when built without optimizations:

$ gcc -O0 application.c -lopencv_core ...

/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/cc8R0Ote.o: in function `cvPointFrom32f':
tst.c:(.text+0x557): undefined reference to `cvRound'
/usr/bin/ld: tst.c:(.text+0x56d): undefined reference to `cvRound'
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/cc8R0Ote.o: in function `cvReadInt':
tst.c:(.text+0xdb1): undefined reference to `cvRound'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Great. I'm not actually calling cvRound() anywhere, and looking into the sources, this breakage was easily avoidable if they actually cared.

A workaround is to define my own cvRound(). Something like this works:

#include <math.h>
static inline int cvRound(float value)
{
    return (int)roundf(value);
}

#include <opencv2/calib3d/calib3d_c.h>

This compiles and links with or without optimizations. Defining this before the OpenCV #include is significant, and you need to link with -lm to get the implementation of roundf().

This is with OpenCV 3.2, as shipped by Debian. I can imagine later releases either un-breaking this, or actually removing the APIs entirely. That would be the impetus for me to finally dump this library. Which would be a good thing overall, to be honest.