installed on windows via pip.

screen.  In particular, that caused cmake's error messsages to be truncated if
the build failed.

to avoid dll hell.

in its output.  This way they will get included by the python setup.py script.

it works with the currently selected compiler and only uses it if the version
is appropraite.

dlib/CMakeLists.txt file is keeping the version numbers.  Also changed all
relevant scripts to grab the version information from CMakeLists.txt.

definitions until cmake was run twice.  This was causing some projects to not
build properly.

easily used in multiple cmake files.

Adding an install target to dlib's CMakeLists

appears as a huge and obvious orange button.

'Hide' dlibConfig.cmake to prevent Windows' CMake to wrongly consider the build directory as dlib install prefix

On Windows, though, only install the static library as dlib does not
generate any useful shared library on Windows.

This allows external project to include dlib by simply using
find_package(dlib REQUIRED)
and:
include_directories() / target_link_libraries(your_target )

Install the static library along the shared one.