These instructions assume you are on macOS, but basically the same on Linux.
Pre-reqs:
- Have Python 3 installed. On macOS, this could be installed from homebrew or even via standard Python 3.6 downloaded installer from https://www.python.org/download. On Linux, just use your package manager.
- On macOS, install XCode from the Mac App Store (or install the XCode command line utils).
- On Linux, install boost (sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev)
- This assumes you don't have an nVidia GPU and don't have Cuda and cuDNN installed and don't want GPU acceleration (since none of the current Mac models support this).
Clone the code from github:
git clone https://github.com/davisking/dlib.git
Build the main dlib library:
cd dlib
mkdir build; cd build; cmake .. -DDLIB_USE_CUDA=0 -DUSE_AVX_INSTRUCTIONS=1; cmake --build .
Build and install the Python extensions:
cd ..
python3 setup.py install --yes USE_AVX_INSTRUCTIONS
python3 setup.py install --yes USE_AVX_INSTRUCTIONS --no DLIB_USE_CUDA
At this point, you should be able to run python3
and type import dlib
successfully.