How to build FaceDetect/cnn_face_detection project on github?

Question

I want to use the https://github.com/FaceDetect/cnn_face_detection project stored on Github repository but it shows so many different files and no proper documentation is available. Can anyone tell me how to build that github project into an executable?

Answer 1

If the github project has releases or tag, like tornado releases on github.

Then you can run

pip install https://github.com/project_name/archive/version.tar.gz

like this:

pip install https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/archive/v4.3.0.tar.gz to install the github online project.

But when the project does't have release tab. You need clone the project and compile from source.

In most cases, you can run python setup.py install.

The question has a python tag. So take python project as an example.