This project is ultimately intended to provide python bindings for the excellent C++ library dlib by David E. King (url, article). Currently only an RVM module has been implemented (that's what I'm interested in). This has been done in a mixture of C++ and Python due to the heavy use of templates in the dlib C++ Library. In future, I'll look for ways to compile directly to a more Pythonic module without needing any Python code.
- Boost::Python
- dlib
- Install Boost::Python using a package manager or from source. Make sure you've built the dynamic library (libboost_python.so)
- Unzip the dlib headers to the directory where you keep your sources folders.
- Install dlib-py:
- In the directory where you keep your source folders (change the necessary directories to something suitable
git clone git@github.com:childsish/dlib-py.git
cd dlib-py
export CFLAGS="-I/path/to/dlib"
python setup.py installMake sure all the necessary shared libraries are in LD_LIBRARY_PATH
There are some strange programming hacks. I hope to create a list here for future inspection:
- When depickling functions, I try each possible function and return the successful one. Otherwise I throw an exception. In future I should implement proper pickling and depickling to make the module more Pythonic
- Not all bindings could be declared in the helper functions. For example, declaring the train function of the trainers, results in a syntax error in a helper function, but will work in the main function. Thus I do as much as possible in the helper functions, but some things are still done in the main function.
- There are still some warnings when compiling the bindings.
- There's probably some more strange stuff that I did but can't remember at the moment.
Of course, the code should be properly documented too.