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compile dlib on windows 10

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git clone https://github.com/davisking/dlib.git
cd dlib && mkdir build && cd build 
cmake-gui ..

with options 

CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX  C:/Program Files/dlib

configure and compile with Visual Studio 2015 and install to C:/Program Files/dlib.

By default, dlib19.10.0_release_64bit_msvc1900.lib will be generated.

CMakeLists.txt

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cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.12)
# Every project needs a name.  We call this the "examples" project.
project(examples)


# Tell cmake we will need dlib.  This command will pull in dlib and compile it
# into your project.  Note that you don't need to compile or install dlib.  All
# cmake needs is the dlib source code folder and it will take care of everything.
add_subdirectory(../dlib dlib_build)

add_executable(demo demo.cpp)
target_link_libraries(demo dlib::dlib)

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find_package(dlib REQUIRED)

if(MSVC)
	set(dlib_LIBRARIES "C:/Program Files/dlib/lib/dlib.lib") # replace dlib::dlib
else()
endif(MSVC)
# ${dlib_INCLUDE_DIRS} and ${dlib_LIBRARIES} are deprecated, simply use target_link_libraries(your_app dlib::dlib)
MESSAGE( [Main] " dlib_INCLUDE_DIRS = ${dlib_INCLUDE_DIRS}") 
MESSAGE( [Main] " dlib_LIBRARIES = ${dlib_LIBRARIES}")   


add_executable(demo demo.cpp)
#target_link_libraries(demo ${dlib_LIBRARIES})
target_link_libraries(demo dlib::dlib)

dlib for python api

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cd tools/python
mkdir build && cd build
cmake-gui ..

compile dlib_python with Visual Studio 2015 and dlib.pyd will be generated.

copy dlib.pyd to C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages.

test dlib for python

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import dlib
dir(dlib)

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