diff --git a/dlib/test/CMakeLists.txt b/dlib/test/CMakeLists.txt
index 330ac241..3d0df673 100644
--- a/dlib/test/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/dlib/test/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -168,58 +168,6 @@ add_executable(${target_name} main.cpp tester.cpp
 get_filename_component(DLIB_FFMPEG_DATA ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/ffmpeg_data/details.cfg REALPATH)
 target_compile_definitions(${target_name} PRIVATE DLIB_FFMPEG_DATA="${DLIB_FFMPEG_DATA}")
 
-if (CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCXX)
-   # Turn on all warnings, and treat them as errors.
-   add_compile_options(-W -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic -Werror)
-   add_compile_options(-fdiagnostics-color=always)
-   # I don't care about unused testing functions though.  I like to keep them
-   # around.  Don't warn about it.
-   add_compile_options(-Wno-unused-function)
-   add_compile_options(-Wno-strict-overflow)
-   add_compile_options(-Wno-maybe-uninitialized)
-
-   if ((CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL 11.3.0 AND CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION VERSION_LESS_EQUAL 11.4.0) OR
-      (CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL 14.0.0 AND CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION VERSION_LESS_EQUAL 14.0.1))
-      # These versions of gcc wrongly yield this warning:
-      #  dlib::row_major_layout::layout<double, 0, 2, dlib::memory_manager_stateless_kernel_1<char> >::data’ with nonzero offset 8 [-Werror=free-nonheap-object]
-      #   61 |                 delete [] item;
-      # Which by inspection of the dlib::row_major_layout::layout class you can see is clearly incorrect, as `data` is most
-      # definitely heap allocated.
-      add_compile_options(-Wno-free-nonheap-object)
-   endif()
-
-   if (CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL 14.0.0 AND CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION VERSION_LESS_EQUAL 14.0.1)
-      # These versions of gcc wrongly yield this warning:
-      # In member function ‘allocate_array’,
-      #     inlined from ‘set_max_size’ at /builddir/build/BUILD/dlib-19.24.4/dlib/../dlib/svm/../matrix/../array/array_kernel.h:438:59,
-      #     inlined from ‘push_back.constprop’ at /builddir/build/BUILD/dlib-19.24.4/dlib/../dlib/svm/../matrix/../array/array_kernel.h:769:30:
-      # /builddir/build/BUILD/dlib-19.24.4/dlib/../dlib/svm/../memory_manager_stateless/memory_manager_stateless_kernel_1.h:54:24: warning: argument 1 value ‘18446744073709551615’ exceeds maximum object size 9223372036854775807 [-Walloc-size-larger-than=]
-      #    54 |                 return new T[size];
-      # when compiling dlib example programs that most definitely do not ask for such allocations. 
-      add_compile_options(-Wno-alloc-size-larger-than)
-   endif()
-
-   if(${CMAKE_VERSION} VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL "3.13.0") 
-      # strip debug symbols to make the binary smaller
-      target_link_options(${target_name} PRIVATE $<$<CONFIG:RELEASE>:-s>)
-   endif()
-
-elseif (MSVC)
-   # Treat warnings as errors.
-   add_compile_options(/WX)
-else() # basically Clang
-   # Treat warnings as errors, but do not turn on all warnings.
-   add_compile_options(-W -Werror)
-   # This is for the comment in face_detection_ex.cpp that says "faces/*.jpg"
-   add_compile_options(-Wno-comment)
-
-   if(${CMAKE_VERSION} VERSION_GREATER "3.8.0") 
-      # strip debug symbols to make the binary smaller
-      target_link_options(${target_name} PRIVATE $<$<CONFIG:RELEASE>:-s>)
-   endif()
-endif()
-
-
 target_link_libraries(${target_name} dlib::dlib )