diff --git a/lib/maintainers.nix b/lib/maintainers.nix
index 2ff11912e0e2..263af793d991 100644
--- a/lib/maintainers.nix
+++ b/lib/maintainers.nix
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
   cdepillabout = "Dennis Gosnell <cdep.illabout@gmail.com>";
   cfouche = "Chaddaï Fouché <chaddai.fouche@gmail.com>";
   chaoflow = "Florian Friesdorf <flo@chaoflow.net>";
+  christopherpoole = "Christopher Mark Poole <mail@christopherpoole.net>";
   coconnor = "Corey O'Connor <coreyoconnor@gmail.com>";
   codyopel = "Cody Opel <codyopel@gmail.com>";
   copumpkin = "Dan Peebles <pumpkingod@gmail.com>";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/dlib/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/dlib/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..94f74e516f1b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/dlib/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, cmake, x11 }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  version = "18.10";
+  name = "dlib-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/dclib/dlib/${name}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "1g3v13azc29m5r7zqs3x0g731hny6spb66cxnra7f167z31ka3s7";
+  };
+
+  # The supplied CMakeLists.txt does not have any install targets.
+  sources_var = "\$\{sources\}";
+  headers_var = "\$\{hearders\}";
+  preConfigure = ''
+    cat << EOF > CMakeLists.txt
+    cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.6 FATAL_ERROR)
+    project(dlib)
+
+    include_directories(./)
+
+    file(GLOB sources ./dlib/all/*.cpp)
+    file(GLOB headers ./dlib/*.h)
+
+    SET(LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH ".")
+    add_library(dlib "SHARED" dlib/all/source.cpp ${sources_var} ${headers_var})
+
+    install(TARGETS dlib DESTINATION lib)
+    install(DIRECTORY dlib/ DESTINATION include/dlib FILES_MATCHING PATTERN "*.h")
+    EOF
+  '';   
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+  buildInputs = [ cmake x11 ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ x11 ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Dlib is a general purpose cross-platform C++ machine learning library.";
+    homepage = http://www.dlib.net;
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.boost;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ christopherpoole ];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
+  };
+}
+
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 608955cee293..502c2f565e5a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4843,6 +4843,8 @@ let
 
   directfb = callPackage ../development/libraries/directfb { };
 
+  dlib = callPackage ../development/libraries/dlib { };
+
   dotconf = callPackage ../development/libraries/dotconf { };
 
   dssi = callPackage ../development/libraries/dssi {};