On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Christopher Fonnesbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I read your post and perhaps I am missing the obvious, but my basic > > question is: apple provides libpng and freetype with xcode which ships > > with their computers (an optional install from their cd) and these > > work fine with MPL, so why should we require an external dependency? > > Really?? So I'm an idiot -- I dont deny it. > > At any rate, I think I have things working with a static build of both > these libraries. I may have spoken too quickly -- I forgot that on my system in order to get the mpl build to find the xcode libpng and freetype libs I had to install pkgconfig, as I described at http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/Py4Science/InstallationOSX with the following note: matplotlib depends on libpng and freetype, both of which are provided by the xcode package in /usr/X11R6, so I am going to point the mpl build to that directory. sys.platform is "darwin", so edit setupext.py and add '/usr/X11R6' to the "basedir" dictionary for the 'darwin' key. You need to install pkgcong-0.22 from http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/ (just configure, sudo make install it) so that matplotlib can use it to find an properly configure png and freetype. You will need to set the pkgcong path > export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11/lib/pkgconfig so it is not exactly automatic. But it does work, in my experience. JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
