Tutorial for Linux

Requirements

• dlib
  • You need not to download dlib
  • dlib includes libjpeg, libpng and zlib
• CMake
  • 3.0 or higher
  • If you do not want to add CMake path to environment variable, you must type fullpath of CMake when build library.
• .NET Core 2.0
• PowerShell Core
  • 6.2 or higher
• .NET Core 2.0
• (Optional for using CUDA) CUDA
• (Optional for using CUDA) cuDNN
• (Optional for using MKL) Intel Math Kernel Library

How to build dlib

DlibDotNet.Native requires libdlib.a. You can refer official page

Preparations

git clone https://github.com/takuya-takeuchi/DlibDotNet
cd DlibDotNet
./Initialize.sh

RHEL/Fedora/CentOS

sudo yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install libX11-devel openblas-devel

Ubuntu/debian

sudo apt-get install libx11-dev libopenblas-dev

How to build DlibDotNet.Native

Build

1. Open DlibDotNet/src/DlibDotNet.Native in console
2. Type the following code in a console:

$ pwsh Build.ps1 <Release/Debug> <cpu/cuda/mkl> <32/64> <desktop/uwp> <optional: cuda version [92/100/101]

• Install CUDA Toolkit and cuDNN if you want to use CUDA
• Install Intel Math Kernel Library if you want to use Intel MKL

3. libDlibDotNetNative.so will be in build_*\Release or build_*\Debug

How to build DlibDotNet.Native.Dnn

Build

1. Open DlibDotNet/src/DlibDotNet.Native.Dnn in console
2. Type the following code in a console:

$ pwsh Build.ps1 <Release/Debug> <cpu/cuda/mkl> <32/64> <desktop/uwp> <optional: cuda version [92/100/101]

• Install CUDA Toolkit and cuDNN if you want to use CUDA
• Install Intel Math Kernel Library if you want to use Intel MKL

3. libDlibDotNetNativeDnn.so will be in build_*\Release or build_*\Debug

How to build DlibDotNet

Preparations

1. Install .NET Core 2.0 by following the official page

Build

1. Open DlibDotNet/src/DlibDotNet in console
2. Type the following code in a console:

dotnet build -c Release

Or

dotnet build -c Debug

How to use DlibDotNet?

1. Open DlibDotNet\src\DlibDotNet in console
2. Type the following code in a console:

dotnet build -c <Release/Debug>