2010/8/9 Markus Baden <markus.ba...@gmail.com>: > On my Macbook Pro I use Python 2.6 as provided by the Enthought Python > Distribution. I ran into some problem with Axes3D so I decided to > upgrade to the latest version from source. While trying that I got a > similiar error message as discussed in > > http://www.mail-archive.com/matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg12938.html > > i.e. error: png.h: No such file or directory > > In short matplotlib could not find libpng (or png.h from that). I had > libpng installed via fink in the usual place /sw/include etc. This > seems to be a quite natural choice, so I wondered why matplotlib does > not find that out of the box. Following the tips in the above post I > looked at basedir in setupext.py For some reason the basedirs for > darwin where commented out. Uncommenting the basedirs did the trick > for me [1] and matplotlib happily installed with the libpng from fink. > > Hope this will help other mac users. Thanks for the great work on > matplotlib!
Thanks for reporting finally a working pure-setup.py installation! But are you sure it really works, because mixing binary-distributed and self-compiled packages often leads to import refusal, when the external libraries (as freetype) are compiled with a different compiler than Python. Friedrich ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
