Hello all, I finally, after much pain and anguish, succeeded at compiling MPL with GTKAgg on windows and I thought people might be interested to know how I managed it. Of course, your mileage may vary...
1. Install Python (I used the Python (x,y) distribution of 2.6: http://code.google.com/p/pythonxy/wiki/Downloads 2. Install the GTK bits and pieces. For some reason using the newest ones causes some problems with paths. I can confirm that this set works on at least two computers: Glade3.6.7withGTK+.exe<http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/glade3/3.6/glade3-3.6.7-with-GTK+.exe> (Install this to c:\GTK so that MPL build can find it without playing with paths) pygtk-2.12.1-3.win32-py2.6.exe<http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/pygtk/2.12/pygtk-2.12.1-3.win32-py2.6.exe> pycairo-1.4.12-2.win32-py2.6.exe<http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/pycairo/1.4/pycairo-1.4.12-2.win32-py2.6.exe> pygobject-2.14.2-2.win32-py2.6.exe<http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/pygobject/2.14/pygobject-2.14.2-2.win32-py2.6.exe> 3. Install libpng<http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnuwin32/libpng-1.2.37-setup.exe>and freetype <http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/downlinks/freetype.php> using the installers (also includes the zlib dll). They will default to install to c:\Program Files\GnuWin32 . This is fine, but note the location. 4. Either checkout the MPL source from subversion, or download a tarball<http://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/matplotlib/trunk/matplotlib/?view=tar>and unpack it 5. Download the win32_static files<http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/win32_static_vs.tar.gz>, and unpack them to the place where your MPL source is, you should then have a folder in the MPL source folder called win32_static 6. Open the file setupext.py in the MPL source folder 7. Edit line 51 (or so) to read:: 'win32' : ['win32_static','c:\\Program Files\\GnuWin32'] 8. Install Visual Studio 2008 Express<http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/#2008-Visual-CPP>if you do not have a version of Visual Studio 2008 on your computer 9. Open a console and type:: python setup.py build --compiler=msvc bdist_wininst 10. Wait for it to finish, then:: python setup.py install to install MPL 11. If everything worked right, you should be able to open a python shell and type >> import matplotlib >> matplotlib.use('GTKAgg') >> import pylab >> pylab.plot(0,4,'s') >> pylab.show() 12. And you should see a GTK rendered plot window with a small square in the center hopefully Improvements to this procedure would be greatly appreciated - but this finally seems to work.. Regards, Ian ---- Ian Bell Graduate Research Assistant Herrick Labs Purdue University email: ib...@purdue.edu cell: (607)227-7626
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