> In article
> <CANNq6Fksj9QgnRPE8jFp_3hnpkQ9647EFUPasUgLB3CgrCik0w@...>,
> Benjamin Root <ben.root@...> wrote:
>
>> Ok, there has been a lot of useful discussion (for both MacOSX and Windows),
>> but in the end, I want to know this: Is it possible for matplotlib to
>> provide a single, recommended, fully-supported-by-us method for installing
>> our package (possibly for each platform?). Could it be pip? Or some other
>> option?
>
> I think we'll always need to be able to install from source and also
> offer a binary on MacOS X.
>
> * Build from source.
>
> If your version of MacOS X is recent enough then building from source
> could easily be made to work (with a few minor changes to setupext.py).
> Most other projects have managed this. I may be able to find some time
> to work on this.
>
> On the good side it would work with nearly any python build and it means
> any user can install matplotlib in the obvious fashion. For these
> reasons I think this is very much worth doing. However, it has some
> disadvantages:
> - It requires that users install XCode
> - I don't think the resulting build will work with older versions of
> MacOS X, because Apple's libraries aren't backward compatible. This
> means the user will run into unexpected difficulty if they build and
> distribute a bundled application. This is a serious problem and means
> that users must have a binary installer option:
>
> -- Russell
A while ago, I posted a Makefile [1] that installs matplotlib (together with
NumPy and SciPy) on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard without downloading any
additional libraries (except from gfortran). Xcode (and Python) are the only
dependencies.
I just tried to install the current github master on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion (with a
self-built Python 2.7.2) and it still works:
export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.7
export ARCHFLAGS=-arch x86_64
export CFLAGS="${ARCHFLAGS} -I/usr/X11/include -I/usr/X11/include/freetype2
-isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX${MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET}.sdk"
export LDFLAGS="-Wall -undefined dynamic_lookup -bundle ${ARCHFLAGS}
-L/usr/X11/lib
-syslibroot,/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX${MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET}.sdk"
python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install
This should make it quite easy to let matplotlib be installed via "pip install
matplotlib".
Cheers,
Stefan
[1]
http://stefan.sofa-rockers.org/2010/11/17/building-numpy-scipy-matplotlib-python-27-snow-leo/
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