Easy Installation of dlib python in Windows

Bored of trying to compile things manually in Windows? Bored of downloading 12GB of Visual Studio just to get a decent windows C compatible compiler? I know :/

I know how complicated/annoying it is to compile dlib, then compile Boost (with python bindings) and then compile it again to get the python api. I lost valuable hours trying to do that and at the end it didnt compile for python because it didnt recognize my Boost installation!!

The easy way: Just dowload from this page (version 18.17) or this link (newer versions of dlib) the Python Wheel file and just pip install it ->

pip install dlib-file.whl

For python 2.7 and win32 just download this file and pip install it.

The hard way: Follow this guide for installing it for python3 using Visual Studio. https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition/issues/175