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If you want a simple example of the ALVAR tracking bridge in ROS you can check this answer. Or directly the examples on this repo.

If you want to use the original ALVAR library. From what you say all you're missing is highgui in you package. So adding a find_package(OpenCV REQUIRED components core highgui) to you cmakelist should do the job.

Hope this helps,

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