how to fix CMake Error in CMakeLists.txt: Generator NMake Makefiles does not support platform specification, but platform x64 was specified

Question

I want to install dlib using pip install dlib using cmd in windows 10 But it is showing following three errors: CMake Error in CMakeLists.txt: Generator

Answer 1

I had the same problem. Installing dlib from .whl worked.

pip install https://pypi.python.org/packages/da/06/bd3e241c4eb0a662914b3b4875fc52dd176a9db0d4a2c915ac2ad8800e9e/dlib-19.7.0-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl#md5=b7330a5b2d46420343fbed5df69e6a3f

See this post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/49538054/9524424