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Build Dlib on Windows

Nhan Cao
2 min readApr 8, 2019
  • Install Visual Studio 2019
  • Install CMake
  • Run install script below
git clone https://github.com/davisking/dlib.git dlib-19.17
cd dlib-19.17
git checkout tags/v19.17
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A x64 \
-DJPEG_INCLUDE_DIR=..\dlib\external\libjpeg \
-DJPEG_LIBRARY=..\dlib\external\libjpeg \
-DPNG_PNG_INCLUDE_DIR=..\dlib\external\libpng \
-DPNG_LIBRARY_RELEASE=..\dlib\external\libpng \
-DZLIB_INCLUDE_DIR=..\dlib\external\zlib \
-DZLIB_LIBRARY_RELEASE=..\dlib\external\zlib \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=install ..
cmake --build . --config Debug --target INSTALL
  • Generate makefile successfully
  • Build install successfully

Now you get a dlib_DIR for CMakeLists.txt

dlib_DIR=D:\_Program Files\dlib-19.17\build\install\lib\cmake\dlib

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