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Yes, you do need to link against libjevjoisbase. Have a look at CMakeLists.txt that comes with samplemodule:
https://github.com/jevois/samplemodule/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt
you need to uncomment a few things to allow linking against libjevoisbase:
## If your module will use components provided by jevoisbase, uncomment the lines below:
if (JEVOIS_PLATFORM)
link_directories("/var/lib/jevois-microsd/lib/JeVois") # find libjevoisbase.so for platform
endif (JEVOIS_PLATFORM)
include_directories("/var/lib/jevois-build/usr/include") # find jevoisbase includes
target_link_libraries(SampleModule ${JEVOIS_OPENCV_LIBS} jevoisbase opencv_imgproc opencv_core)