Tutorial for MacOS

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

Preparations

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

Install X11

• Please refer About X11 for Mac

💡 NOTE

You need to launch XQuarts when use GUI functions of DlibDotNet

How to build DlibDotNet.Native

Build

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

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..

3. Type the following code in a console:

cmake --build . --config Release

Or

cmake --build . --config Debug

4. libDlibDotNetNative.dylib will be in build

How to build DlibDotNet.Native.Dnn

Build

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

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..

3. Type the following code in a console:

cmake --build . --config Release

Or

cmake --build . --config Debug

4. libDlibDotNetNativeDnn.dylib will be in build

How to build DlibDotNet

Preparations

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

Build

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

dotnet build -c Release

Or

dotnet build -c Debug

How to use DlibDotNet?

For now dotnet command does NOT support specify any executable directory. So please refer the following code in a console:

dotnet restore
dotnet msbuild /p:Configuration=Release
mkdir -p bin/Release/netcoreapp2.0
mv bin/ReleaseMac/netcoreapp2.0/* bin/Release/netcoreapp2.0
cp ../../src/DlibDotNet.Native/build/libDlibDotNet.Native.dylib bin/Release/netcoreapp2.0/
dotnet run --configuration Release --no-build