include dlib in ros cmake files

Question

I want to use some dlib opencv headers in the pub-sub application of ros. I tried to include the dlib libraries in the ros-package cmake files as follows:

My dlib installation source path: /home/xxxx/computervision/dlib-18.18/dlib

So I included it in cmake file of ros-pkg the following way:

" set (dlib_DIR "/home/praneeth/computervision/dlib-18.18/dlib/") find_package(dlib 18.18 REQUIRED) " (went through the similar way of including a opencv library inside ros-pkg cmake)

But I am facing with the error:

" Could not find a package configuration file provided by "dlib" (requested version 18.18) with any of the following names:

dlibConfig.cmake
dlib-config.cmake

Add the installation prefix of "dlib" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set "dlib_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files. If "dlib" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has been installed. "

Even though the dlib folder of the above source path has dlibConfig.cmake.in file in it.

Any help on how to include these libraries?

praneeth praneeth · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-13T08:59:05

Found the answer to this!! This reference sourceforge.net/p/dclib/discussion/442517/thread/efc8d59d gave me a hint to look into dlib/examples/CMakeLists.txt and follow the same. Since, I know my dlib installation path, I simply included in my project (external to dlib source tree) CMakeLists.txt, the following code include(dlibsourcepath_until_cmake) and while compiling a program in my project, i have added dlib as one of its target link libraries as

target_link_libraries(program_executable_name ${catkin_LIBRARIES} ${OpenCV_LIBRARIES} dlib)

include dlib in ros cmake files

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