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+{ stdenv, lib, fetchFromGitHub, cmake, pkgconfig, libpng, libjpeg
+, guiSupport ? false, libX11
+
+  # see http://dlib.net/compile.html
+, avxSupport ? true
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "dlib";
+  version = "19.17";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "davisking";
+    repo = "dlib";
+    rev ="v${version}";
+    sha256 = "0g11ilma6cll3bd2ahm66j1sjb9v4rxz3xjbfkcg5pjsvb49n029";
+  };
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    rm -rf dlib/external
+  '';
+
+  cmakeFlags = [ "-DUSE_AVX_INSTRUCTIONS=${if avxSupport then "yes" else "no"}" ];
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake pkgconfig ];
+  buildInputs = [ libpng libjpeg ] ++ lib.optional guiSupport libX11;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "A general purpose cross-platform C++ machine learning library";
+    homepage = http://www.dlib.net;
+    license = licenses.boost;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ christopherpoole ma27 ];
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+  };
+}