Simson Garfinkel wrote: > I'm embarrassed to ask that I'm having trouble building/installing > matplotlib on an intel Mac.
Don't be embarassed -- it's really pretty hard! All the various pythons (Universal, fink, darwinports, etc) for OS-X confuse things a lot, but I think you'll get the best support if you stick with the "official" framework Universal build: http://www.python.org/download/ You can also get it from: http://www.pythonmac.org/packages/py25-fat/index.html The cool thing about that site is that you can get a bunch of pr-built compatible packages from there also. Unfortunately, the matplotlib there right now doesn't appear to work with the latest wxPython. I'm not sure which wxPython version it is built against, but it crashed for me when used with wxPython2.8.3 The good news is, as I understand it, is the Ken McIvor patched the most recent MPL to use wxPython 2.8b features that allow you to build MPL without linking to wxPython. Hopefully someone will do a build that works with wxPython2.8.3 and put it up on the pythonmac site soon. I may even do it, but I haven't needed to for a while, so I don't have it all set up at this point. If you're going to built it yourself, still use the pythonmac packages for everything else, you'll be glad you did. -Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
