diff --git a/srcpkgs/dlib/patches/pybind11cmake.patch b/srcpkgs/dlib/patches/pybind11cmake.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..b8d58a557762f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/dlib/patches/pybind11cmake.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+--- a/dlib/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/dlib/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
+    endif()
+ endif()
+
++find_package(pybind11 REQUIRED)
+
+ if (COMMAND pybind11_add_module AND MSVC)
+    # True when building a python extension module using Visual Studio.  We care
+--- a/tools/python/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/tools/python/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@
+     include(${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/../../dlib/cmake_utils/tell_visual_studio_to_use_static_runtime.cmake)
+ endif()
+
+-add_subdirectory(../../dlib/external/pybind11 pybind11_build)
++#add_subdirectory(../../dlib/external/pybind11 pybind11_build)
++find_package(pybind11 REQUIRED)
+ add_subdirectory(../../dlib dlib_build)
+
+ add_definitions(-DDLIB_VERSION=${DLIB_VERSION})
+
diff --git a/srcpkgs/dlib/template b/srcpkgs/dlib/template
index bd85c15d64b77c..565e0f57b9aea2 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/dlib/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/dlib/template
@@ -1,27 +1,59 @@
 # Template file for 'dlib'
 pkgname=dlib
-version=19.20
+version=19.24.6
 revision=1
 build_style=cmake
 configure_args="-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON"
-makedepends="libjpeg-turbo-devel libpng-devel zlib-devel
- $(vopt_if openblas openblas-devel) $(vopt_if x11 libX11-devel)"
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config python3-devel python3-setuptools python3-distutils-extra"
+makedepends="libjpeg-turbo-devel libpng-devel zlib-devel ffmpeg6-devel cblas-devel
+ $(vopt_if openblas openblas-devel) $(vopt_if x11 libX11-devel) python3-pybind11"
 short_desc="Modern C++ toolkit containing machine learning algorithms and tools"
 maintainer="Felix Hanley <felix@userspace.com.au>"
 license="BSL-1.0"
 homepage="http://dlib.net"
 distfiles="https://github.com/davisking/${pkgname}/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=fc3f0986350e8e53aceadf95a71d2f413f1eedc469abda99a462cb528741d411
+checksum=22513c353ec9c153300c394050c96ca9d088e02966ac0f639e989e50318c82d6
 
 build_options="openblas x11"
 desc_option_x11="Enable X11 for GUI components"
 build_options_default="openblas x11"
 
+case "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" in
+	#arm*) configure_args+=" -DPYBIND11_FINDPYTHON=ON";;
+	arm*)
+		configure_args+=" -DPYBIND11_FINDPYTHON=ON"
+		cmake_args+=" -DPYBIND11_USE_CROSSCOMPILING=ON"
+		;;
+esac
+
 post_extract() {
 	# don't prefer bundled libs
 	rm -rf ./dlib/external
 }
 
+post_build() {
+	if [[ "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" == arm* ]]; then
+		inc="include($(pwd)/$(find -name 'cross_*cmake'))"
+		sed -i "1i$inc" tools/python/CMakeLists.txt
+	fi
+	# extracted from 'python setup.py build --no DLIB_USE_CUDA' failures to cross compile
+	CFALGS=${CFLAGS} CXXFLAGS=${CXX_FLAGS} cmake /builddir/dlib-19.24.6/tools/python \
+ -DCMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY=/builddir/dlib-19.24.6/build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-312 \
+ -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/python -DDLIB_USE_FFMPEG=OFF -DDLIB_USE_CUDA=no ${cmake_args}
+}
+
+post_install() {
+	python setup.py install --skip-build --prefix=/usr --root="${DESTDIR}" --optimize=1 --compiler-flags
+}
+
+python3-dlib_package() {
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	short_desc+=" - python3"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove "usr/lib/python*"
+	}
+}
+
 dlib-devel_package() {
 	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
 	short_desc+=" - development files"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-dlib b/srcpkgs/python3-dlib
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000000..9076da8e02e809
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/python3-dlib
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+dlib
\ No newline at end of file