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+cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.5)
+project (matconvnet)
+
+set(default_build_type "Release")
+if(NOT CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE AND NOT CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES)
+  message(STATUS "Setting build type to '${default_build_type}' as none was specified.")
+  set(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE "${default_build_type}" CACHE
+      STRING "Choose the type of build." FORCE)
+  set_property(CACHE CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE PROPERTY STRINGS
+    "Debug" "Release" "MinSizeRel" "RelWithDebInfo")
+endif()
+
+find_package(Matlab COMPONENTS MX_LIBRARY REQUIRED)
+find_package(JPEG REQUIRED)
+find_package(OpenMP REQUIRED)
+if (OPENMP_FOUND)
+  set (CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} ${OpenMP_CXX_FLAGS}")
+endif()
+
+add_definitions(-DENABLE_DOUBLE)
+include_directories(${JPEG_INCLUDE_DIR})
+include_directories(${Matlab_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+
+if(MSVC)
+  set(CMAKE_WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS TRUE)
+  add_definitions(-D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE)
+  if(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS MATCHES "/W[0-4]")
+    string(REGEX REPLACE "/W[0-4]" "/W1" CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS}")
+  endif()
+  set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} /wd4068")
+endif()
+
+# Snippet to locate the matlab-blas library to link
+if(NOT Matlab_BLAS_LIBRARY)
+  include(${CMAKE_ROOT}/Modules/SelectLibraryConfigurations.cmake)
+  find_library(Matlab_BLAS_LIBRARY_RELEASE NAMES mwblas  libmwblas  PATHS ${Matlab_ROOT_DIR} PATH_SUFFIXES extern/lib/win64/microsoft bin/maci64 bin/glnxa64)
+  find_library(Matlab_BLAS_LIBRARY_DEBUG   NAMES mwblasd libmwblasd PATHS ${Matlab_ROOT_DIR} PATH_SUFFIXES extern/lib/win64/microsoft bin/maci64 bin/glnxa64)
+  select_library_configurations(Matlab_BLAS)
+endif()
+
+add_library(matconvnet SHARED
+ matlab/src/bits/data.cpp
+ matlab/src/bits/datamex.cpp
+ matlab/src/bits/nnconv.cpp
+ matlab/src/bits/nnbias.cpp
+ matlab/src/bits/nnfullyconnected.cpp
+ matlab/src/bits/nnsubsample.cpp
+ matlab/src/bits/nnpooling.cpp
+ matlab/src/bits/nnnormalize.cpp
+ matlab/src/bits/nnnormalizelp.cpp
+ matlab/src/bits/nnbnorm.cpp
+ matlab/src/bits/nnbilinearsampler.cpp
+ matlab/src/bits/nnroipooling.cpp
+ matlab/src/bits/impl/im2row_cpu.cpp
+ matlab/src/bits/impl/copy_cpu.cpp
+ matlab/src/bits/impl/tinythread.cpp
+ matlab/src/bits/impl/imread_libjpeg.cpp
+ matlab/src/bits/imread.cpp
+)
+set_property(TARGET matconvnet PROPERTY POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON)
+target_link_libraries(matconvnet ${Matlab_BLAS_LIBRARY} ${JPEG_LIBRARY} ${Matlab_MEX_LIBRARY} ${Matlab_MX_LIBRARY})
+install(TARGETS matconvnet DESTINATION ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/matlab/)
+
+if(NOT MSVC)
+  set(VL_TMOVE "vl_tmove" "matlab/src/vl_tmove.cpp")
+endif()
+
+list(APPEND vl_files
+vl_imreadjpeg        matlab/src/vl_imreadjpeg.cpp
+vl_imreadjpeg_old    matlab/src/vl_imreadjpeg_old.cpp
+vl_nnbilinearsampler matlab/src/vl_nnbilinearsampler.cpp
+vl_nnbnorm           matlab/src/vl_nnbnorm.cpp
+vl_nnconv            matlab/src/vl_nnconv.cpp
+vl_nnconvt           matlab/src/vl_nnconvt.cpp
+vl_nnnormalize       matlab/src/vl_nnnormalize.cpp
+vl_nnnormalizelp     matlab/src/vl_nnnormalizelp.cpp
+vl_nnpool            matlab/src/vl_nnpool.cpp
+vl_nnroipool         matlab/src/vl_nnroipool.cpp
+vl_taccummex         matlab/src/vl_taccummex.cpp
+${VL_TMOVE}
+)
+
+list(LENGTH vl_files size)
+math(EXPR size "${size} - 1")
+foreach(val RANGE 0 ${size} 2)
+  math(EXPR nextval "${val} + 1")
+  list(GET vl_files ${val} mex)
+  list(GET vl_files ${nextval} src)
+  matlab_add_mex(NAME ${mex} SRC ${src} LINK_TO ${JPEG_LIBRARY} matconvnet)
+  install(TARGETS ${mex} DESTINATION ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/matlab/)
+endforeach()