CMakeLists.txt

CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED(VERSION 2.8.12)

# Set this to disable link time optimization. The only reason for
# doing this to make the compile faster which is nice when developing
# new modules.
# set(PYBIND11_LTO_CXX_FLAGS "")


# Avoid cmake warnings about changes in behavior of some Mac OS X path 
# variable we don't care about.
if (POLICY CMP0042)
    cmake_policy(SET CMP0042 NEW)
endif()


# To avoid dll hell, always link everything statically when compiling in
# visual studio.  This way, the resulting library won't depend on a bunch
# of other dll files and can be safely copied to someone else's computer
# and expected to run.
if (MSVC)
    include(${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/../../dlib/cmake_utils/tell_visual_studio_to_use_static_runtime.cmake)
endif()

add_subdirectory(../../dlib/external/pybind11 pybind11_build)
add_subdirectory(../../dlib dlib_build)

if (USING_OLD_VISUAL_STUDIO_COMPILER)
   message(FATAL_ERROR "You have to use a version of Visual Studio that supports C++11.  As of December 2017, the only versions that have good enough C++11 support to compile the dlib Python API is a fully updated Visual Studio 2015 or a fully updated Visual Studio 2017.  Older versions of either of these compilers have bad C++11 support and will fail to compile the Python extension. ***SO UPDATE YOUR VISUAL STUDIO TO MAKE THIS ERROR GO AWAY***")
endif()


add_definitions(-DDLIB_VERSION=${DLIB_VERSION})

# Tell cmake to compile all these cpp files into a dlib python module.
set(python_srcs
   src/dlib.cpp
   src/matrix.cpp
   src/vector.cpp
   src/svm_c_trainer.cpp
   src/svm_rank_trainer.cpp
   src/decision_functions.cpp
   src/other.cpp
   src/basic.cpp
   src/cca.cpp
   src/sequence_segmenter.cpp
   src/svm_struct.cpp
   src/image.cpp
   src/image2.cpp
   src/rectangles.cpp
   src/object_detection.cpp
   src/shape_predictor.cpp
   src/correlation_tracker.cpp
   src/face_recognition.cpp
   src/cnn_face_detector.cpp
   src/global_optimization.cpp
   src/image_dataset_metadata.cpp
   src/numpy_returns.cpp
   src/line.cpp
)

# Only add the GUI module if requested
if(NOT ${DLIB_NO_GUI_SUPPORT})
   list(APPEND python_srcs src/gui.cpp)
endif()

pybind11_add_module(dlib_python ${python_srcs})
target_link_libraries(dlib_python PRIVATE dlib::dlib)
# Set the output library name to dlib because that's what setup.py and distutils expects.
set_target_properties(dlib_python PROPERTIES OUTPUT_NAME dlib)