title: Dlib installation python 2.7
body: <p>Former marine grunt here! New to python and coding. Trying to install DLIB for python 2.7. I run the command <code>pip install dlib</code> and keep getting this error message:</p>
  
  
  
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  <pre class="lang-none prettyprint-override"><code>Collecting dlib
    Using cached dlib-19.1.0.tar.gz 
  Building wheels for collected packages: dlib
    Running setup.py bdist_wheel for dlib ... error
  Complete output from command c:\python27\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='c:\\users\\pickfl~1\\appdata\\local\\temp\\pip-build-4qhao2\\dlib\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', \n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" 
  bdist_wheel -d c:\users\pickfl~1\appdata\local\temp\tmpcvgy9jpip-wheel- --python-tag cp27:
    running bdist_wheel
    running build
    Detected Python architecture: 32bit
    Detected platform: win32
    Configuring cmake ...
    -- Building for: NMake Makefiles
    -- The C compiler identification is unknown
    -- The CXX compiler identification is unknown
    CMake Error in CMakeLists.txt:
      The CMAKE_C_COMPILER:
        cl
      is not a full path and was not found in the PATH.
      To use the NMake generator with Visual C++, cmake must be run from a shell
      that can use the compiler cl from the command line.  This environment is
      unable to invoke the cl compiler.  To fix this problem, run cmake from the
      Visual Studio Command Prompt (vcvarsall.bat).
      Tell CMake where to find the compiler by setting either the environment
      variable "CC" or the CMake cache entry CMAKE_C_COMPILER to the full path to
      the compiler, or to the compiler name if it is in the PATH.
    CMake Error in CMakeLists.txt:
      The CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER:
        cl
      is not a full path and was not found in the PATH.
      To use the NMake generator with Visual C++, cmake must be run from a shell
      that can use the compiler cl from the command line.  This environment is
      unable to invoke the cl compiler.  To fix this problem, run cmake from the
      Visual Studio Command Prompt (vcvarsall.bat).
      Tell CMake where to find the compiler by setting either the environment
      variable "CXX" or the CMake cache entry CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER to the full path
      to the compiler, or to the compiler name if it is in the PATH.
    -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
    See also "C:/Users/Pickflickr1/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-build-4qhao2/dlib/tools/python/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
    See also "C:/Users/Pickflickr1/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-build-4qhao2/dlib/tools/python/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".
    error: cmake configuration failed!
  
    ----------------------------------------   Failed building wheel for dlib
  
  Along with this:
   Command "c:\python27\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='c:\\users\\pickfl~1\\appdata\\local\\temp\\pip-build-4qhao2\\dlib\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install
  --record c:\users\pickfl~1\appdata\local\temp\pip-l8pcsq-record\install-record.txt
  --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in c:\users\pickfl~1\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-4qhao2\dlib\
  </code></pre>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Any feedback or help would be great! Former jarhead so bear with me, thanks.</p>