diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9fbfccca6dfda997d8a0dbfc4b373590feeecad8..81fde16c8c8788938fa26601506a6b9b12c68217 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ install*/
 __pycache__
 *.pyc
 *.egg-info
+aidge_backend_opencv/_version.py
+wheelhouse/*
 
 # Mermaid
 *.mmd
@@ -18,4 +20,4 @@ __pycache__
 xml*/
 
 # ONNX
-*.onnx
\ No newline at end of file
+*.onnx
diff --git a/.gitlab/ci/cibuildwheel_build_deps_before_build_wheel.sh b/.gitlab/ci/cibuildwheel_build_deps_before_build_wheel.sh
index dde9ca9bf115b2931f9885b35a85e0cbd3e4c02a..df6891d6367f90ac7f176eb3d2b13f42e6cdc69f 100644
--- a/.gitlab/ci/cibuildwheel_build_deps_before_build_wheel.sh
+++ b/.gitlab/ci/cibuildwheel_build_deps_before_build_wheel.sh
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ if [[ $AIDGE_DEPENDENCIES ==  "" ]]; then # case for aidge_ core
   rm -rf build/* # build from scratch
 else 
   for repo in $AIDGE_DEPENDENCIES ; do # case for other projects
-    REPO_PATH=$(find /host/data1/is156025/tb256203/dev/eclipse_aidge/aidge_latest/ -type d -name $repo \
+    search_path="/host/home/"
+    REPO_PATH=$(find $search_path -type d -name $repo \
                                 -not -path '*install*' \
                                 -not -path '*.git*' \
                                 -not -path '*miniconda*' \
@@ -16,6 +17,10 @@ else
                                 -not -path "*lib*" \
                                 -not -path "*/$repo/$repo" \
                                 -print -quit) 
+    if [[ "$REPO_PATH" == "" ]]; then 
+      echo "ERROR : dependency $repo not found in search_path \"$search_path\". ABORTING."
+      exit -1
+    fi
 
     cd $REPO_PATH
     mkdir -p build # creating build if its not already there to hold the build of cpp files
diff --git a/.gitlab/ci/cibuildwheel_install_opencv.sh b/.gitlab/ci/cibuildwheel_install_opencv.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5fc00298a3ad9625f6e5ac6be0ec3378f75f92d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitlab/ci/cibuildwheel_install_opencv.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+git clone https://github.com/opencv/opencv.git
+cd opencv
+git checkout 4.9.0
+mkdir build
+cd build 
+cmake .. \
+  -DENABLE_SOLUTION_FOLDERS=OFF\
+  -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF \
+  -DBUILD_opencv_ml=ON \
+  -DBUILD_opencv_java_bindings_generator=OFF \
+  -DBUILD_opencv_js=OFF \
+  -DBUILD_opencv_js_bindings_generator=OFF \
+  -DBUILD_opencv_objc_bindings_generator=OFF \
+  -DBUILD_opencv_python_bindings_generator=OFF \
+  -DBUILD_opencv_apps=OFF \
+  -DBUILD_opencv_calib3d=OFF \
+  -DBUILD_opencv_videoio=OFF \
+  -DBUILD_opencv_highgui=OFF \
+  -DBUILD_opencv_gapi=OFF \
+
+  -DBUI
+make -j8
+make install
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4c0d4fd18d9dcb80a56e27adddda5b173f7d0c4e..6254421d8e0dbff4427e38a76f0b8cea610c0f5e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -3,11 +3,9 @@ name = "aidge_backend_opencv"
 description="Opencv implementations of the operators and tensor of aidge framework"
 dependencies = [
     "numpy>=1.21.6",
-    "opencv-python",
 ]
 requires-python = ">= 3.7"
-# dynamic = ["version"] # defined in tool.setuptools_scm
-version = "0.1"
+dynamic = ["version"] # defined in tool.setuptools_scm
 readme = "README.md"
 license = { file = "LICENSE" }
 classifiers = [ 
@@ -33,9 +31,9 @@ where = ["."]  # list of folders that contain the packages (["."] by default)
 include = ["aidge_backend_opencv*"]  # package names should match these glob patterns (["*"] by default)
 exclude = ["aidge_backend_opencv.unit_tests*"]  # exclude packages matching these glob patterns (empty by default)
 namespaces = false  # to disable scanning PEP 420 namespaces (true by default)
-# SETUPTOOLS_SCM
-# [tool.setuptools_scm]
-# write_to = "aidge_backend_opencv/_version.py"
+SETUPTOOLS_SCM
+[tool.setuptools_scm]
+write_to = "aidge_backend_opencv/_version.py"
 
 #####################################################
 # CIBUILDWHEEL
@@ -48,14 +46,15 @@ build-frontend = "build"
 AIDGE_DEPENDENCIES = "aidge_core" # format => "dep_1 dep_2 ... dep_n"
 AIDGE_INSTALL="/host/AIDGE_INSTALL_CIBUILDWHEEL"
 [tool.cibuildwheel.windows.environment]
-AIDGE_DEPENDENCIES = "aidge_core" # format => "dep_1","dep_2", ... ,"dep_n"
+AIDGE_DEPENDENCIES = ["aidge_core"] # format => "dep_1","dep_2", ... ,"dep_n"
 AIDGE_INSTALL="../AIDGE_INSTALL_CIBUILDWHEEL/"
 
 [tool.cibuildwheel.linux]
 before-build = [
+    "bash .gitlab/ci/cibuildwheel_install_opencv.sh",
     "bash .gitlab/ci/cibuildwheel_build_deps_before_build_wheel.sh "
 ]
 [tool.cibuildwheel.windows]
 before-build = [
     "powershell -File .\\.gitlab\\ci\\cibuildwheel_build_deps_before_build_wheel.ps1"
-]
\ No newline at end of file
+]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 44d40d4b29b801ad4f7b91446b8c895fbfab48db..2df428c2a335adae29baac2f73765e6b80d31b43 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ import sys
 import os
 import shutil
 import pathlib
-import subprocess
 import multiprocessing
 
 import sysconfig
@@ -12,7 +11,6 @@ from math import ceil
 import toml
 
 from setuptools import setup, Extension
-from setuptools import find_packages
 from setuptools.command.build_ext import build_ext
 
 def get_project_name() -> str: