libfacedetection-raspberrypi

🚀️ Always up-to-date libfacedetection binaries for Raspberry Pi - just download and use it.

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The libfacedetection binaries are compiled with the GCC Toolchain, ensuring compatibility across a wide range of Raspberry Pi boards running Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit. GitHub CI workflows are used to automate the build process: pipelines run daily, but new builds are triggered only when a new libfacedetection release is available.

Why?

• No official libfacedetection packages. There are no prebuilt official libfacedetection packages for Raspberry Pi OS, forcing users to compile it from source themselves.
• Optimized binaries. libfacedetection is built with NEON optimizations enabled, giving a real performance boost on Raspberry Pi hardware compared to a build without them.
• Always up to date. GitHub CI workflows rebuild and publish libfacedetection automatically whenever a new version is released upstream.
• No extra dependencies. libfacedetection is built as a static library, so it links directly into your application with no shared library to install or manage at runtime.

Build Information

• Statically linked library, compiled as position-independent code (PIC) so it can be embedded in both static and shared applications.
• Built with NEON optimizations enabled for better performance on Raspberry Pi.

Precompiled Binaries

If you prefer not to build the libfacedetection yourself, a precompiled libfacedetection can be downloaded from the releases page.

curl -sSLo libfacedetection.deb https://github.com/prepkg/libfacedetection-raspberrypi/releases/latest/download/libfacedetection-aarch64-linux-gnu.deb \
  && sudo apt install -y ./libfacedetection.deb \
  && rm -rf libfacedetection.deb

Compilation

Requirements

• Git
• Docker

Instructions

• Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/prepkg/libfacedetection-raspberrypi.git && cd libfacedetection-raspberrypi

• Build the Docker image:

./setup.sh build-image

• Build the library:

./setup.sh build-lib

After compilation, the deb package will be available in the build directory.

• (Optional) Run the test to verify that the library links correctly and the resulting binary runs under QEMU:

./setup.sh test-lib